Miro Jurisic wrote: [... Apple's lwarc/stwcx smells-like-FUD stuff ...] Reading this http://www.google.de/groups?selm=1dguf31.ssbf6n1ogodzrN%40michel.sophia.dcm.... http://www.google.de/groups?selm=rbarris-ya023280001610980237340001%40206.82... http://www.google.de/groups?selm=alexr-1610981926250001%40roseal2.apple.com http://www.google.de/groups?selm=Pine.ULT.3.90.981017011012.17495A-100000%40... http://www.google.de/groups?selm=Pine.ULT.3.90.981019134835.576A-100000%40st... http://www.google.de/groups?selm=Pine.ULT.3.90.981020094604.8148A-100000%40s... http://www.google.de/groups?selm=rang-2010981430230001%40margaret.trillium.a... I gather that it's all about "hard to grasp" msync stuff, nothing else. regards, alexander. P.S. BTW, that Apple's CompareAndSwap (as of 1998) looks really over{i}sync'd beyond reasonable (redundant store aside for a moment).