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race condition: a standalone construct

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a situation in which the outcome of a concurrent program depends on the unpredictable order in which its threads access shared data.

In distributed systems, race condition refers to a situation in which the outcome of a concurrent program depends on the unpredictable order in which its threads access shared data. This meaning comes from Netzer (1992) in ACM Letters on Programming Languages and Systems.[1]

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References

Netzer, R. H. B., & Miller, B. P. (1992). What are race conditions? ACM Letters on Programming Languages and Systems, 1(1), 74-88. https://doi.org/10.1145/130616.130623

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