livelock

plural livelocks

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

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

   2000, Douglas Lea, Concurrent Programming in Java, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 193

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   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.

   2003, Mark Pearce, Comprehensive VB .NET Debugging, →ISBN, page 439

   Adding queuing prematurely can hide synchronization issues such as deadlocks and livelocks, and further, as your program converges toward correctness, you may find that you need more or less queuing.

   2017, Katherine Cox-Buday, Concurrency in Go […] , O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 124

present singular third person livelocks · participle present livelocking · participle past livelocked · past livelocked

1. computingTo enter a state of livelock.