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Atomicity & Race Conditions — check-then-act, read-modify-write, and why count++ isn't safe
Tests whether you can decompose count++ into its actual three steps (read, increment, write) and explain that two threads interleaving between those steps can both read the same value and both write back the same increment, silently losing an update -- the canonical read-modify-write race.
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