RacerX: effective, static detection of race conditions and deadlocks
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
RaceTrack: efficient detection of data race conditions via adaptive tracking
Proceedings of the twentieth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Learning from mistakes: a comprehensive study on real world concurrency bug characteristics
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Race directed random testing of concurrent programs
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
Distributed In Vivo Testing of Software Applications
ICST '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation
Decoupling dynamic program analysis from execution in virtual environments
ATC'08 USENIX 2008 Annual Technical Conference on Annual Technical Conference
CrystalBall: predicting and preventing inconsistencies in deployed distributed systems
NSDI'09 Proceedings of the 6th USENIX symposium on Networked systems design and implementation
Transparent, lightweight application execution replay on commodity multiprocessor operating systems
Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Efficient system-enforced deterministic parallelism
OSDI'10 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Operating systems design and implementation
Pervasive detection of process races in deployed systems
SOSP '11 Proceedings of the Twenty-Third ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
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While thread races have drawn huge attention from the research community, little has been done for process races, where multiple--possibly sequential--processes access a shared resource, such as a file, without proper synchronization. We present a preliminary study of real process races and show that they are numerous, dangerous, and difficult to detect. To address this problem, we present the design of RACEPRO, an in-vivo model checking system for automatically detecting process races in deployed systems, along with preliminary results from a RACEPRO prototype. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to study real process races, and RACEPRO is the first system to detect them.