deadlock

state in which members are blocking each other

Class type of: error, process risk, software bug Q623276

Facts

9 properties

Instance of: situation, concurrency pattern, failure cause, security weakness, type of error, CWE weakness^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]
Subclass of: error, process risk, software bug^[7]^[8]^[9]
Part of: Deadlock^[10]
Facet of: operating system^[11]
Different from: Blockierung (Datenverarbeitung)^[12]
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Studied by: parallel programming^[13]

🏷️ Also known as

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🔖 Identifiers · 9

OpenAlex ID: C159023740
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Process deadlock.svg ↗
CWE ID: 833
De Agostini ID: deadlock
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: technology/deadlock-computing
Freebase ID: /m/0qcdj
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued): 159023740
Stack Exchange tag: stackoverflow.com
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID: 14038832-n

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🔗 Connections

Instance of 2

situation, failure cause

Subclass of 2

error, software bug

Facet of 1

operating system

Studied by 1

parallel programming

← Has cause 1

hang

← Main subject 1

dining philosophers problem

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Summary

deadlock is a situation^[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[2] ↑ deadlock — instance of (P31): concurrency pattern. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ deadlock — instance of (P31): failure cause. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ deadlock — instance of (P31): security weakness. cwe.mitre.org. cwe.mitre.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ deadlock — instance of (P31): type of error. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ deadlock — instance of (P31): CWE weakness. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ deadlock — subclass of (P279): error. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ deadlock — subclass of (P279): process risk. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ deadlock — subclass of (P279): software bug. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ deadlock — part of (P361): Deadlock. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ deadlock — facet of (P1269): operating system. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ deadlock — different from (P1889): Blockierung (Datenverarbeitung). wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ deadlock — studied by (P2579): parallel programming. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ deadlock is an instance of situation (Q2141565) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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