Data Races and Race Conditions
In this lesson, you will learn about data races which in most cases lead to race conditions.
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One of the reasons why concurrency is hard to achieve is because of data races.
Data Race
A data race happens when processes have to access the same variable concurrently i.e. one process reads from a memory location while another simultaneously writes to the exact same memory location.
The following function is an example of a data race:
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