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Re:The Safety Boat: Kubernetes and Rust by sa46 on Sunday May 03, 2020 @03:29AM (#23057475)
I wasn't sure. After a bit of research, this seems to be a debate [1]. Using the common definitions, it's possible to have a data race that doesn't cause a race condition. [2] It's also possible to have a race condition without a data race.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_condition#Data_race

[2] https://blog.regehr.org/archives/490

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Re:The Safety Boat: Kubernetes and Rust by Rusky on Sunday May 03, 2020 @12:03PM (#23059818)
I would argue that "a data race that doesn't cause a race condition" is still, itself, a tiny race condition- just a contained one.

But you're right, this is just choice of terminology. :)

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