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Re:How to trigger races reliably in the Linux kernel by chrisseaton on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @12:57PM (#23082121)
> What you are describing sounds like non-deterministic behavior of a thread-safe primitive, e.g. non-deterministic ordering in a synchronized queue.

That's what a race condition is - non-deterministic behavior of a thread-safe primitive.

> On the other hand, a true race condition in the queue could mean messages overwriting each other.

That's a data race, not a race condition.

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