Antideadlock

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Preventing deadlock. not-comparable

    "By the way, this antideadlock behavior of the synchronized keyword is not necessarily a good thing. When a thread encounters a runtime exception while it is holding a lock, there's the possibility—indeed, the expectation—that it will leave the data it was manipulating in an inconsistent state."

Example

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"By the way, this antideadlock behavior of the synchronized keyword is not necessarily a good thing. When a thread encounters a runtime exception while it is holding a lock, there's the possibility—indeed, the expectation—that it will leave the data it was manipulating in an inconsistent state."

Etymology

From anti- + deadlock.

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