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livelock: /li:vīlok/, 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.
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