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Date:      Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:01:45 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
Cc:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/cat cat.1 cat.c 
Message-ID:  <63391.1001491305@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Sep 2001 05:56:26 %2B0300." <20010926055625.A21817@hades.hell.gr> 

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On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 05:56:26 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> And there is always a possibility of a race condition between a stat() and an
> open().  So relying on stat() to control what open() and/or connect() will do
> is kind of dangerous in my book :-/

I think this argument is pretty irrelevent, one way or the other, since
a race condition exists either way.

I think mi came up with the most convincing argument, re future object
types.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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