note syphilis <i>I'm surprised nobody has answered you yet.</i><br><br>On reflection, the title probably doesn't match the actual question (which boils down to directory permissions) all that well.<br><br> <i>So I guess the & 0222 is making sure that each dir is not writable?</i><br><br>Thanks for that - that makes sense (typo - it's 0022, not 0222).<br><br>So .... according to stat(), all directories on my windows Vista box (even those that I can't write to) are drwxrwxrwx.<br> Does this signify some shortcoming of the stat function on Windows ? <br>Or does it signify some problem with the way this box is set up ?<br> Or does it mean something else altogether ?<br><br>And what are the ramifications re the particular condition in sub env_untaint that's posing the problem ?<br>I haven't found anything helpful about this in the stat or perlport documentation. <br><br>Cheers,<br>Rob 783905 784108