That's true but it's still better than what we have know. Unless we take the lock all the time it will be a race condition no matter what. But the penalty of taking the lock is not worth it given that this only happens briefly in the beginning. --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/pull/251#issuecomment-119224841 ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-DEV list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-DEV&A=1