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Subject: Re: How do I check out a snapshot?
To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
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> The whole FreeBSD process is a multi-threaded/SMP kind of thing, so you
> gotta think about race conditions and all those other OS kinds of
> things. :)

I'm sure you didn't mean this analogy... the fix in the SMP case is locking.

8-) 8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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