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OS => Linux => Topic started by: Mylo on November 17, 2016, 07:04:54 PM

Title: What is the distinction between dead-lock and live-lock?
Post by: Mylo on November 17, 2016, 07:04:54 PM
Hello, I have a small question to submit, what is the distinction between dead-lock and live-lock? Thank you very much for kindly helping me!
Title: Re: between dead-lock and live-lock?
Post by: Haider on December 11, 2016, 01:15:44 PM
A livelock is similar to a deadlock, except that the states of the processes involved in the livelock constantly change with regard to one another, none progressing. Livelock is a special case of resource starvation; the general definition only states that a specific process is not progressing.