Merge pull request #468 from andersk/races-mostly

races: Clarify a “mostly” that might be misread
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Yuki Okushi 5 days ago committed by GitHub
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@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Safe Rust guarantees an absence of data races, which are defined as:
* one or more of them is unsynchronized * one or more of them is unsynchronized
A data race has Undefined Behavior, and is therefore impossible to perform in A data race has Undefined Behavior, and is therefore impossible to perform in
Safe Rust. Data races are *mostly* prevented through Rust's ownership system: Safe Rust. Data races are prevented *mostly* through Rust's ownership system alone:
it's impossible to alias a mutable reference, so it's impossible to perform a it's impossible to alias a mutable reference, so it's impossible to perform a
data race. Interior mutability makes this more complicated, which is largely why data race. Interior mutability makes this more complicated, which is largely why
we have the Send and Sync traits (see the next section for more on this). we have the Send and Sync traits (see the next section for more on this).

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