Jan Kara: > to serialize anything. But from a maintenance point of view it is better to > acquire the lock so that possible assertions that lock is held in some > helper functions don't barf or for the case the function gets used in a > different code path in the future. Ok, thanx. "a maintenance point of view" is a good keyword for me. I will post "the fix passed my local stress test" tomorrow. J. R. Okajima