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Il 20/08/2014 17:31, Radim Krčmář ha scritto:
> Btw. without extra code, we are still going to overflow on races when
> changing PW_grow, should they be covered as well?

You mean because there is no spinlock or similar protecting the changes?
 I guess you could use a seqlock.

Paolo