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Researcher outlines manual and automated methods for testing kernel race condition bugs

A security researcher describes the practical difficulty of confirming and reproducing race condition bugs in software, particularly the Linux kernel. Current techniques include manually inserting delay calls into kernel code to force specific thread interleavings, or using DTrace probes on macOS and Windows, both of which are slow and require trial and error.