Meaning of livelock | Babel Free

Definitions

A state resembling deadlock in which various computational processes are constantly changing but never reach a point where any of them can proceed.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“However, this can lead to livelock—the optimistic analog of indefinite blocking in which methods continuously spin without making any further progress.”

“A process is considered to be in a state of livelock when thread code is still executing, but two or more threads are in a never-ending cycle with each other and no useful work is being done.”

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