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by sudhirj
3021 days ago
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That wouldn't count as a deadlock. A deadlock implies that it's possible to make a logical determination that the system is permanently stuck, and that state cannot possibly change without external intervention. i.e. a deadlock can only be determined when you look at the system as a whole from the outside and determine that it's permanently stuck. |
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yes, i know.
as i have pointed out elsewhere, with synchronous invocations, it is easy to get into a loop (or deadlock) i.e. pid-a -> pid-b -> pid-c -> pid-a. for the async case, which is what was elucidated by gp, it seems to me that the example is 'deadlocking' only because no one is sending messages expected by the other party...