Racing Trains

A train passenger's travel mishap turns into a classic software war story: after rebooking a seat following a missed connection, he and another passenger both arrive at the same seat with identical confirmed reservations, timestamped to the same second. The piece uses this real-world incident to illustrate a textbook check-then-act race condition in the transit company's reservation system, speculating that the bug persists simply because the provider doesn't consider it a priority to fix.

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