On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 02:26:18PM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > 3) Extend the exclusive capability to include isolation from parents, > along the lines of your patch. This was precisely the design that I first came up not so long ago, but never posted. The reason being that I thought all parties involved had already agreed to this design because of some reason (unknown to me) that was already discussed in detail during the last flurry of emails. Now that you have asked this question and actually said that this would probably be a better design, I wholeheartedly agree and whats more I already have most of the code required. Infact here it is I think I'll redo the patch and post it for review shortly -Dinakar (Warning, this has all the warts that have previosuly been pointed out and more)