Roger Pack wrote: >> Currently with 1.8.7 (for me) the secondmost thread continues >> immediately [with false returned] and with 1.9 the second thread >> blocks then loads the required file a second time. Are these >> expected? > > Thanks for fixing that in 1.9 trunk. [now if two threads request the > same file the second blocks till the first "finishes"] Is this behavior now specified? I don't remember this ever being resolved. - Charlie