Time-of-check to time-of-use: Difference between revisions

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| website=[[Microsoft Developer Network]]

| url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/deprecation-of-txf

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| archive-date=29 September 2022}}</ref>

[[File locking]] is a common technique for preventing race conditions for a single file, but it does not extend to the file system namespace and other metadata, nor does locking work well with networked filesystems, and cannot prevent TOCTOU race conditions.