If you need to depend upon a consistent snapshot of what some
other thread writes into a file, you must have some locking
protocol to use to synchronize with that other thread.
Appends of small-writes (for whatever reason) seems to be atomic,
AFAIK nobody gets corrupt apache logs for example.
--cw
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