From: mental@...
Date: 2005-11-09T04:12:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Checking for race conditions with Ruby threads

Quoting Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@gmail.com>:

> I've got an untrustworthy legacy app that seems to have a nasty
> race condition when a certain number of users click on a link at
> just the right time.

> I'm trying to write a Ruby unit test to trigger this, but I'm a
> bit stumped.

You cannot test for race conditions, only prove them.

-mental