Operating systems
Race conditions can occur in the context of file and memory management in an operating system, when two separate programs attempt to access the same resource, such as memory space. Imagine a situation where two processes from different programs have been running for a significant amount of time, and, even though they were originally initialized apart from each other in terms of memory space, enough data has been accumulated and the stack of execution of one process now collides with that of the other process. This can lead to the two processes sharing the same portion of memory space and can ultimately result in unpredictable consequences.
Another aspect of the complexity of race conditions is illustrated by the Unix version ...
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