Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch-2.3.29] bugfix for pipe(2) system call. | From | Matthias Andree <> | Date | 24 Nov 1999 16:54:05 +0100 |
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Tigran Aivazian <tigran@sco.COM> writes:
> having thought about it for a bit I think - perhaps it is better to run > out of resources than to introduce (on some archs) a not so trivial to > debug race condition... so perhaps it is wiser to not apply the patch > below?
race conditions are the worst things you can evoke, they will haunt you and curse your life and everything. No, really: race conditions are hard to track, "out of resources" are not. If you can avoid race conditions, do so.
-- Matthias Andree
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