Uncovering a JDK Race Condition and Debugging it Efficiently with Fray
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Summary
The article discusses the discovery of a JDK race condition while testing Fray integration tests. Initially suspected as a bug in Fray, it was found to be caused by a bug in the JDK itself. The author debugged the issue in 30 minutes using Fray.
Key quotes
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Fray threw a deadlock exception while testing the seemingly innocent code.
I discovered that the deadlock was actually caused by a bug in the JDK itself.
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