On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Vasili I. Galchin <vigalchin@gmail.com> wrote:
--  these two lines are non-thread safe     .. yes?? to be thread-safe
the  above line and the following line would have to be together
atomic ....

Not even then would it really be safe; it should trap the exception from readFile failing, instead of checking existence in a separate step.

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