On Aug 27, 2007, at 7:42 PM, David Wooten wrote: I don’t really know what this stuff is about, other than is_pid_native is used to test if a program/process is running natively or emulated -- who calls it and why, and why it is not allowed, I don’t know. It might be that the distributed objects mate uses to talk with TM, is testing if sender and receiver are both in the same architecture or so, and somehow this is not allowed because you run as another user in the shell, or… well… I really have no idea ;)