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timing and co-ordination defect
subject			fact

timing and co-ordination defect	is a subtopic of 10.5 - Defects in Timing and Co-Ordination: Deadlock, Livelocks and Critical Races
	is a kind of defect
	occur when several threads or processes interact in inappropriate ways
	only occurs in a situation involving some form of concurrency
defect	has example the absence of code to handle an exception
problem	has solution which will normally entail developing software, although you may decide that it is better to purchase software or to develop a non-software solution
	should be written as a simple problem statement in one or two sentences

Kinds of timing and co-ordination defect :

• critical race (8 facts) (race condition) - A defect in which one thread or process can sometimes experience a failure because another thread or process interferes with the 'normal' sequence of events