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I was just about to commit a big buffer overhaul when I realized that it would probably break a lot of stuff and I'd get yelled at, so it's in the kcarnold_work tag (or will be momentarily...). Have a look at it, try to make it deadlock. If I messed up the CVS tagging, also let me know -- I know only enough about CVS to be dangerous :) This should also reduce CPU usage noticably. The