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livelock /liv'lok/ /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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