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Changed wording and grammar for clarity.
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| ## Race Condition | ||
| We call it a Race condition when an assumption about the ordering of a set of events might be violated by external non-deterministic effects. Race conditions often arise when multiple threads have a shared mutable state, and the operations of thread on the state might be interleaved causing unexpected behavior. While this is a common case, shared state is not necessary to have race conditions. One example could be a client sending unordered packets (e.g UDP datagrams) P1, P2 to a server. As the packets might potentially travel via different network routes, it is possible that the server receives P2 first and P1 afterwards. If the messages contain no information about their sending order it is impossible to determine by the server that they were sent in a different order. Depending on the meaning of the packets this can cause race conditions. | ||
| A Race condition is when an assumption about the ordering of a set of events might be violated by external non-deterministic effects. Race conditions often arise when multiple threads have a shared mutable state, and the operations of threads on the state might be interleaved, causing unexpected behavior. While this is a common case, shared state is not necessary to have race conditions. One example would be a client sending unordered packets P1, P2 to a server. Because the packets might travel via different network routes, it is possible that the server receives P2 first and P1 afterwards. If the messages contain no information about their sending order, then it is impossible for the server to deterine that they were sent in a different order. Depending on the meaning of the packets, this can cause race conditions. |
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slight spelling error. "deterine" should be determine.
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Changed wording and grammar for clarity.