livelock

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A condition resembling deadlock in which the various processes are constantly changing state but never reach a situation where any of them can proceed
A situation in which a thread waits to be notified of a condition but, on waking, finds that another thread has inverted the condition again The first thread is forced to wait again When this happens indefinitely, the thread is in livelock
/li: v'lok/ n A situation in which some critical stage of a task is unable to finish because its clients perpetually create more work for it to do after they have been serviced but before it can clear its queue Differs from {deadlock} in that the process is not blocked or waiting for anything, but has a virtually infinite amount of work to do and can never catch up
A request for an exclusive lock on a file or data item that's repeatedly denied because of shared locks imposed by other users
When tasks are fighting for an exclusive resource, but are also ready to run For example both tasks may be in a loop checking for a resource's availability
(n ) A situation in which a process is forever blocked because another process has preferential access to a resource needed by both processes