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Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2603] base etempbug...
> Well I tried, and for the life of me, I can't hit the race condition
> deliberately.
But if there's no semaphore locking, then the possibility is non-zero,
correct? Therefore, if we want to make robust code, semaphore locking
should be added out of general principle. Granted, it may slow things
down a little, but it's not like people are running servers on Sun3's or
386's...
Either way, adding it would be a win, I think.
Bob Campbell Unix System Administrator
Scientific Computing Division National Center for Atmospheric Research
rsc@ucar.edu (303) 497-1815