What is the distinction between dead-lock and live-lock?

Started by Clayton, November 17, 2016, 07:04:54 PM

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Mylo

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!

Haider

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.