livelock – Tarik Billa

Good example of livelock?

November 13, 2022 by Tarik

Here’s a very simple Java example of livelock where a husband and wife are trying to eat soup, but only have one spoon between them. Each spouse is too polite, and will pass the spoon if the other has not yet eaten. public class Livelock { static class Spoon { private Diner owner; public Spoon(Diner … Read more

What’s the difference between deadlock and livelock?

September 23, 2022 by Tarik

Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadlock: In concurrent computing, a deadlock is a state in which each member of a group of actions, is waiting for some other member to release a lock 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, … Read more