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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
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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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