Re:Google Is Uncovering Hundreds of Race Conditions Within t...
by chrisseaton on Thursday October 03, 2019 @10:11AM
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Even Wikipedia says it's not always a bug
> A race condition or race hazard is the condition of an electronics, software, or other system where the system's substantive behavior is dependent on the sequence or timing of other uncontrollable events. It becomes a bug when one or more of the possible behaviors is undesirable.
Or read the canonical Encyclopaedia of Parallel Computing page 1693
> [A race condition is when there is] some order among events [where the] order is not determined by the program
> A race condition or race hazard is the condition of an electronics, software, or other system where the system's substantive behavior is dependent on the sequence or timing of other uncontrollable events. It becomes a bug when one or more of the possible behaviors is undesirable.
Or read the canonical Encyclopaedia of Parallel Computing page 1693
> [A race condition is when there is] some order among events [where the] order is not determined by the program