Deadlock

A deadlock is a situation wherein two or more competing actions are waiting for the other to finish, so neither ever does. It is often seen in a paradox, like the chicken or the egg.

External links

• Deadlock Detection Agents
• Paper "Deadlock Detection in Distributed Object Systems" by Nima Kaveh and Wolfgang Emmerich
• Article "Distributed Deadlock Detection" by JoAnne L. Holliday and Amr El Abbadi
• Article "Deadlock detection in distributed databases" by Edgar Knapp
• Article "Advanced Synchronization in Java Threads" by Scott Oaks and Henry Wong
• Citations by CiteSeer
• Coffman, E.G., M.J. Elphick, and A. Shoshani, System Deadlocks, ACM Computing Surveys, 3, 2, 67-78 (1971).