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Old 10-04-2018
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Originally Posted by Don Cragun
Maybe I wasn't clear. The change suggested at the end of post #3 should always work; the only thing that was wrong in post #3 was my explanation of why it would work. The correct explanation of why the suggestion in post #3 gets rid of the race condition in your code is presented in post #5.
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