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Not again (media.piefed.social)

submitted 3 months ago by Lojcs@piefed.social to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

It's a race condition that doesn't get triggered when you run the program through a debugger or with copious amounts of debug log output 💀

[–] Lojcs@piefed.social 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Or something about packaging. Or I used a function that has a different implementation for debug mode out of its intended purpose. Or

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

AKA heisenbug.

Observing it changes the outcome.

[–] Matty_r@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

When adding a debug print statement changes the locking of a thread and the problem doesn't occur..