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"Livelock"
Keywords:
deadlock
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preferential
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forever
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relinquishing
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sleeping
a kind of variation of a deadlock where (for example) each process returns with a failure code instead of sleeping, and tries to help by relinquishing the resources it has got and then carrying on with its shopping list
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(n.) A situation in which a process is forever blocked because another process has preferential access to a resource needed by both processes.
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Keywords:
ececution
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indefinitely
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repeated
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progress
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sequences
ececution sequences that can be repeated indefinitely often without ever making effective progress.
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