deadly embrace

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deadly embrace

A stalemate that occurs when two elements in a process are each waiting for the other to respond. For example, in a network, if one user is working on file A and needs file B to continue, but another user is working on file B and needs file A to continue, each one waits for the other. Both are temporarily locked out. The software must be able to deal with this. Contrast with livelock.

deadly embrace [¦ded·lē im′brās]

(computer science)

deadlock

deadly embrace - deadlock

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