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Race condition

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCommon term

In software engineering, race condition means: A situation in which a program's result depends on the timing or ordering of operations that may run concurrently.

In Turkish: yarış durumu

How it is used

Used in concurrency bug reports and incident analysis. Reproducing the issue may require a particular timing between requests or threads.

Example sentences

  1. Two simultaneous updates exposed a race condition in the inventory service.

  2. The test forces the problematic ordering to reproduce the race condition.

Common collocations

  • detect a race condition
  • prevent a race condition
  • reproduce a race condition
  • threadA sequence of execution within a process that can run alongside other sequences while sharing some process resources.
  • mutexA synchronization mechanism that allows only one cooperating execution context at a time to enter a protected section.
  • deadlockA situation where two or more transactions each wait for a lock the other holds, so none of them can continue until the database cancels one.

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