Quote: a race condition occurs when two threads update shared data simultaneously; difficult to catch; needs locks to avoid

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Race conditions are common, insidious errors in multi-threaded … … They can be avoided by careful programming discipline: … [Birrell 1989] … Current programming tools provide little support for this … crucial synchronization operations. … because the resulting race conditions are scheduler dependent, …   Google-1   Google-2

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