Comment 84 for bug 530541

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Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx) wrote : Re: [Bug 530541] Re: desktopcouch-service crashed with RuntimeError in run_couchdb()

On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 12:34 +0000, corrie wrote:
> Hi Brian.

Hey,

> Apparently the script I put in was cut off.

No, it wasn't.

> There are no race conditions here.

Sure there is. What if another process wants to do a gethost* call for
a hosts that's only in the /etc/hosts.normal while you have
"temporarily" hijacked the /etc/hosts file for the sake of starting the
buggy application?