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What is a race condition?
Short answer. Two threads changing the same shared data together, so the result goes wrong.
How do you stop it?
Mark the method synchronized, so one thread uses it at a time.
Remember
| Shared data can clash |
| synchronized: one at a time |
Two threads book the last seat together. What goes wrong? Both read the same count, so a booking is lost. This is a race condition. Synchronized allows one at a time. Shared data can clash. Synchronized allows one thread at a time.
This clip is from the full lesson: Assertions and Threads in Java — 6 minutes, with the tables, the quick answers and the whole lesson in text.
Useful for: CBSE Class 12 Information Technology (802), CBSE Class 12 Information Technology (802)
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