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README: fix link to race conditions (#1367)
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* Use correct HTML anchor.
* Use the term "race condition" consistently to make it easier to find.
  (Previously it used "race" in one and "racy" in the other, making it
  difficult to do a find/grep.)

Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodato@google.com>
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MarkLodato authored Jan 27, 2022
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Similarly, they **can** easily be copied from one environment to another, but this is not
automatic.

Multiple signatures are stored in a list which is unfortunately "racy" today.
Multiple signatures are stored in a list which is unfortunately a race condition today.
To add a signature, clients orchestrate a "read-append-write" operation, so the last write
will win in the case of contention.

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Roughly (ignoring ports in the hostname): `s/:/-/g` and `s/@/:/g` to find the signature index.

See [Race conditions](#race-conditions) for some caveats around this strategy.
See [Race conditions](#registry-details) for some caveats around this strategy.

Alternative implementations could use transparency logs, local filesystem, a separate repository
registry, an explicit reference to a signature index, a new registry API, grafeas, etc.
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