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Re:Google Is Uncovering Hundreds of Race Conditions Within t... by hunter2_ on Thursday October 03, 2019 @09:51AM (#21146909)
The phrase "race condition" is usually not used to describe the harmless asynchronous code you're referring to.
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Re:Google Is Uncovering Hundreds of Race Conditions Within t... by chrisseaton on Thursday October 03, 2019 @09:56AM (#21146972)
No you're thinking about 'data races'. Almost all software that interacts with the outside world, or clocks, like of course a kernel, is going to have many harmless 'race conditions'. Erlang for example, is a language extremely prone to race conditions, but not to data races.
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Re:Google Is Uncovering Hundreds of Race Conditions Within t... by tsbinz on Thursday October 03, 2019 @10:04AM (#21147057)
The tool specifically looks for data races.
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