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[Deadlock]

Hello everyone, this is my first day here in codecall.net. My original nick is Paradox but I found it to be taken here :closedeyes:. So I had to use my alternative which is this one. I hope I can find some more knowledge here. I'm capable of Java,VB.NET,C#,Prolog,Haskell and others knowing that Java and VB is my favorite. I hope to see you guys around. :rolleyes:

Edited by James.H, 28 March 2010 - 05:38 AM.

[Vswe]

Welcome to CodeCall :)

[James.H]

Hi Deadlock welcome to codecall, I see your doing well here. Hope to see more from you!

[WingedPanther]

Hiya Deadlock. May you avoid your nick at all times :)

[Deadlock]

Lol, you know much about deadlocks?

[WingedPanther]

I haven't done any threaded programming yet... deadlocks and such being an obvious hazard if not done carefully.

[Deadlock]

Yea, originally Deadlocks happen by computer processes requesting different resources simultaneously so they reach a stage where every process is waiting for another process to release the resource its using going through a waiting cycle that will never get opened and that is called a "Deadlock". The same also goes for threads under the same process (the same concept) but once a deadlock happen, its too hard to recover from it unless using checkpoints and rollbacks which consumes memory inefficiently , So OS designers goes through implementing a defensive strategy against deadlocks.

Real example for a deadlock:

[WingedPanther]

I know how to make a deadlock :) It's avoiding them that can get tricky!

[Deadlock]

Yea so tricky I can say. There are basic algorithms you can follow to avoid them though.

[so1i]

Welcome mate. Nice intro! :)