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A multi-threaded program presents the risk of race conditions, which are situations in which multiple threads rely on the same system state. This is a dangerous situation because if multiple threads access the same state simultaneously, the state could become corrupted. Thread safety avoids race conditions by guaranteeing that multiple threads can run safely, concurrently. | |||
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Thread Safety
A multi-threaded program presents the risk of race conditions, which are situations in which multiple threads rely on the same system state. This is a dangerous situation because if multiple threads access the same state simultaneously, the state could become corrupted. Thread safety avoids race conditions by guaranteeing that multiple threads can run safely, concurrently.