Deadlocks, Liveness & Reentrant Locks

Deadlock and Liveness

Logical follies committed in multithreaded code, while trying to avoid race conditions and guarding critical sections, can lead to a host of subtle and hard to find bugs and side-effects. Some of these incorrect usage patterns have their specific names and are discussed below.

Deadlock

Deadlocks occur when two or more threads aren't able to make any progress because the resource required by the first thread ...