Code AnalysisHard 60s

Fencing missing on lease-based lock

A worker holds a lease, pauses (GC), and resumes. Why is this unsafe?

Starter code

lock = acquire("job:1", lease=10s)
do_work()          # pause 15s here, lease expired + another worker took over
write_result()     # no fencing token

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