On Jun 2, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
Race conditions don't go away just because you have high speed connections.
Quite true, but high speed connections *do* shrink the time window, considerably reducing the risk. Unless you have an application that absolutely, positively, must *never* fail, you can easily get to a point where the risk is too low to justify the effort of lowering it even further.
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