Race conditions

Race conditions

Posted Feb 23, 2003 8:36 UTC (Sun) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: Stanford CHECKER? by wh
Parent article: Comparing free and proprietary software defect rates

Linux also has many more people looking for race conditions in it than any of the proprietary systems that they compared it to. Therefore, we can reasonably expect it to compare favorably in that area vs. the other systems.

This is not to say Linux would show well, on an absolute scale, in its number of remaining race conditions. It probably stinks. The proprietary stacks, though, probably stink far, far worse, for exactly the same reasons that they leak worse.

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