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livelock
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/li:vlok/ , n. A situation in which some critical stage of a task is unable
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to finish because its clients perpetually create more work for it to do
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after they have been serviced but before it can clear its queue. Differs
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from deadlock in that the process is not blocked or waiting for anything,
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but has a virtually infinite amount of work to do and can never catch up.
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