On 25 May 2008, at 11:22, Steve Steinitz wrote:

Hello,

Thank you Jens Alfke, Peter Burtis and Stephen Joseph Butler for your excellent, quick and helpful replies.

[SNIP]

from your method. Stephen warns that the host method needs to be re- entrant or guard against multiple entries.

I hate to say this, but any form of delay here is the *wrong* way to do this. You already know you have a race condition, all you're doing is making it so the race condition will work out in your favor 99.99% of the time. There are still exceptional cases where the OS will be busy doing something and your 0.1 second sleep will not be enough to sort it out. Instead of doing this, do your threading properly, and get your locking right.

Bob
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