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On 6/19/2012 7:31 PM, Fred Greer wrote:
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> Neither of these makes much sense, because standard library code is not
> supposed to magically change its behavior like that, and it's certainly
> not supposed to make something that used to work no longer work by
> magically changing its behavior overnight.

Is your code multi-threaded?

I'm asking because things that transition "magically" between working
and not working are often timing dependent, and transition because of a
change that affects relative speeds, such as file placement and cache
history.

Patricia