time-of-check to time-of-use
English
Noun
time
-
of
-
check
to
time
-
of
-
use
(
software engineering
)
A
class
of
software
bugs
caused by a
race condition
involving
the
checking
of the
state
of a
part
of a
system
, such as a
security
credential
, and the use of the
results
of that
check
.
Synonym:
TOCTOU
(
initialism
)
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