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livelock
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/li:vlok/ , 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.