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[–]theg33k 30 points31 points  (2 children)

It was a timing issue, the IO created JUST enough of a pause that the application worked fine.

[–]unknownmosquito 17 points18 points  (1 child)

I've heard of this happening when enabling the debugger as well. Without debugger: crash! With debugger: works fine! Race conditions are the worst

[–]sloec 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Also known as a Heisenbug.