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TOCTOU

TOCTOU is the abbreviation of time-of-check to time-of-use.

Meaning of time-of-check to time-of-use

Noun

time-of-check to time-of-use

  1. A class of software bugs caused by a race condition involving the checking of the state of a part of a system, such as a security credential, and the use of the results of that check.
    Synonyms:
    TOCTOU

Forms of TOCTOU

alternative formTOCTTOU

Questions about TOCTOU

What is TOCTOU the abbreviation of?
TOCTOU is the abbreviation of time-of-check to time-of-use.

Words near TOCTOU in the dictionary

  1. tocracks
  2. TOCs
  3. tocsin
  4. tocsins
  5. Toctoc
  6. TOCTOU
  7. TOCTTOU
  8. Tocumwal
  9. tocusso
  10. tocut
  11. tocuts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: TOCTOU (page history and authors); time-of-check to time-of-use (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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