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From: Rob Pike rob@pla...
Subject: [9fans] create(2)/open(2) race for file creation
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 16:44:16 -0500

If you're trying to create lock files dozens of times per second
in a union directory you deserve whatever failures the system
sees fit to provide.

-rob