time-of-check to time-of-use

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time-of-check to time-of-use

  1. (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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