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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:36:38 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] A little more ado about async Tclunk
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>on the other hand inferno's sys-export(2) services all requests
>(except Tflush) asynchronously,
>so the race will always be present.

no, that mistakes the problem. without the change, the issuing process
will see the clunk completed before it attempts any further operations:
no race. with the change, that is no longer true, even for a single (visible)
process.