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On 3/23/2010 12:24 AM, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> Peeking is evil:
>>
> That's all well and good, but I'm not writing new code; I also see no
> need to rewrite xinetd from the ground up,

I was just trying to explain Corinna's observation that peeking is rare. 
  There are good reasons to avoid it even aside from MS's bugs.

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