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Overview of Race Conditions in Operating Systems




A race condition happens when a system depends on something being done outside of its control before the system reaches a point where it needs to use the results of that something, and there’s no way to guarantee that that something will actually be finished when the system needs it. For example, suppose there’s a [...]