From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Date: 28 Feb 2003 13:25:50 -0800 Don't know what this impacts, perhaps out of order data on a pipe? There's a race to get the lock, who cares? If multiple people are playing with the socket, the exact pieces of data they happen to get is random unless the application does it's own locking. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html