starvation
A thread that never gets its turn, even though the program as a whole keeps running.
Starvation happens when scheduling or lock fairness keeps favoring other threads, so one waits indefinitely although no deadlock exists.
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A thread that never gets its turn, even though the program as a whole keeps running.
Starvation happens when scheduling or lock fairness keeps favoring other threads, so one waits indefinitely although no deadlock exists.
See also