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Race condition

A race condition or race hazard is the condition of an electronics, software, or other system where the system's substantive behavior is dependent on the sequence or timing of uncontrollable events, leading to unexpected or inconsistent results. It becomes a bug when one or more of the possible behaviors is undesirable.

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Karnaugh maps encourage designers to recognizeinstance ofWorkaroundsDesign techniques0.80text
eliminate race conditions before they cause problemsinstance ofWorkaroundsDesign techniques0.80text
flip-flops can help ensure that signals change in a predictable mannerinstance ofusing clocked elements0.80text
reducing the risk of race conditions in complex digital systems.Despite these precautionsinstance ofusing clocked elements0.80text
some logic elements may still enter metastable statesinstance ofusing clocked elements0.80text
a memory location.Data raceNot everyone regards data races as a subset of race conditionsinstance ofMutually exclusive operations are those that cannot be interrupted while accessing some resource0.80text
returning the wrong length for an array.A critical difference between the Cinstance ofit is said to contain a data race ... a data race cannot cause incorrect behavior0.80text
disk spaceinstance ofThis requires synchronization at the process level.A different form of race condition exists in file systems where unrelated programs may affect each other by suddenly using up…0.80text
memory spaceinstance ofThis requires synchronization at the process level.A different form of race condition exists in file systems where unrelated programs may affect each other by suddenly using up…0.80text
or processor cyclesinstance ofThis requires synchronization at the process level.A different form of race condition exists in file systems where unrelated programs may affect each other by suddenly using up…0.80text
a memory locationinstance ofMutually exclusive operations are those that cannot be interrupted while accessing some resource0.80text
Race conditionrelated to Computer securityMany0.60section

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