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Advanced Python Programming - Second Edition

You're reading from  Advanced Python Programming - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801814010
Pages 606 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Quan Nguyen Quan Nguyen
Profile icon Quan Nguyen

Table of Contents (32) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Python-Native and Specialized Optimization
2. Chapter 1: Benchmarking and Profiling 3. Chapter 2: Pure Python Optimizations 4. Chapter 3: Fast Array Operations with NumPy, Pandas, and Xarray 5. Chapter 4: C Performance with Cython 6. Chapter 5: Exploring Compilers 7. Chapter 6: Automatic Differentiation and Accelerated Linear Algebra for Machine Learning 8. Section 2: Concurrency and Parallelism
9. Chapter 7: Implementing Concurrency 10. Chapter 8: Parallel Processing 11. Chapter 9: Concurrent Web Requests 12. Chapter 10: Concurrent Image Processing 13. Chapter 11: Building Communication Channels with asyncio 14. Chapter 12: Deadlocks 15. Chapter 13: Starvation 16. Chapter 14: Race Conditions 17. Chapter 15: The Global Interpreter Lock 18. Section 3: Design Patterns in Python
19. Chapter 16: The Factory Pattern 20. Chapter 17: The Builder Pattern 21. Chapter 18: Other Creational Patterns 22. Chapter 19: The Adapter Pattern 23. Chapter 20: The Decorator Pattern 24. Chapter 21: The Bridge Pattern 25. Chapter 22: The Façade Pattern 26. Chapter 23: Other Structural Patterns 27. Chapter 24: The Chain of Responsibility Pattern 28. Chapter 25: The Command Pattern 29. Chapter 26: The Observer Pattern 30. Assessments 31. Other Books You May Enjoy

Race conditions in real life

In particular, we will discuss the topics of security, file management, and networking. Race conditions don't simply exist in simple, minimal code examples about global counters. They are present in many important tasks such as security, file management, and networking. In this section, we will briefly discuss what some of these examples might look like from a theoretical perspective.

Security

Concurrent programming can have significant implications in terms of the security of the system in question. Recall that a race condition arises between the process of reading and altering the data of a resource; a race condition in an authenticating system can cause the corruption of data between the time of check (when the credentials of an agent are checked) and the time of use (when the agent can utilize the resource). This problem is also known as a Time-Of-Check-To-Time-Of-Use (TOCTTOU) bug, which is undoubtedly detrimental to security systems.

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