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Re:Notes on Concurrency Bugs (2016) by legulere on Saturday May 28, 2022 @12:33PM (#31541639)
The type of bug described for MySQL has a special name: time-of-check to time-of-use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-of-check_to_time-of-use
Re:Notes on Concurrency Bugs (2016) by agumonkey on Saturday May 28, 2022 @01:33PM (#31542142)
solution for this is atomic block / compare-and-swap ?