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Re: spinlock protection on data question

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:

> > This is still bad because I have to access the data to find out which lock to 
> > use. Secondly, I don't have any guarantees that data is not null between the 
> > time I check and the time I access. The only think I can see is to have 
> > another global lock. . . Not sure what else I can do.
> 
> Not to mention being really susceptible to user craziness ie data->number.

la la la i take that back! I was looking at some other code when i 
answered your question.

	Zwane

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