On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Guido Ostkamp wrote:
> Would this work or is there a special reason why the original check was done
> with lock held?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_condition
Until you have a lock on a buffer header, you can't trust that you're even
seeing consistent information about it.
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