diff --git a/process.go b/process.go
index af000c7..cf51f18 100644
--- a/process.go
+++ b/process.go
@@ -124,7 +124,10 @@ type process struct {
 // values for a process.
 func newProcess(ctx context.Context, server *server, subject Subject, processKind processKind, procFunc func() error) process {
 	// create the initial configuration for a sessions communicating with 1 host process.
+	server.processes.mu.Lock()
 	server.processes.lastProcessID++
+	pid := server.processes.lastProcessID
+	server.processes.mu.Unlock()
 
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(ctx)
 
@@ -135,7 +138,7 @@ func newProcess(ctx context.Context, server *server, subject Subject, processKin
 		messageID:        0,
 		subject:          subject,
 		node:             Node(server.configuration.NodeName),
-		processID:        server.processes.lastProcessID,
+		processID:        pid,
 		processKind:      processKind,
 		methodsAvailable: method.GetMethodsAvailable(),
 		toRingbufferCh:   server.toRingBufferCh,
diff --git a/processes.go b/processes.go
index ffad931..c901936 100644
--- a/processes.go
+++ b/processes.go
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ import (
 
 // processes holds all the information about running processes
 type processes struct {
+	// mutex for processes
+	mu sync.Mutex
 	// The main context for subscriber processes.
 	ctx context.Context
 	// cancel func to send cancel signal to the subscriber processes context.
diff --git a/requests_copy.go b/requests_copy.go
index 0400e9e..657410e 100644
--- a/requests_copy.go
+++ b/requests_copy.go
@@ -416,7 +416,9 @@ func copySrcSubProcFunc(proc process, cia copyInitialData, cancel context.Cancel
 							status = copySrcDone
 						}
 
-						lastReadChunk = b[:n]
+						lastReadChunk = make([]byte, len(b[:n]))
+						copy(lastReadChunk, b[:n])
+						//lastReadChunk = b[:n]
 
 						// Create a hash of the bytes.
 						hash := sha256.Sum256(b[:n])