##  [Deadlock](/index.php/deadlock) 

  ##  [Deadlock](https://natural.quantumdictionary.io/deadlock-0) 

  

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Definition

A concurrency failure in which two or more tasks wait indefinitely for resources held by each other (or for conditions that can only be satisfied by the others), preventing any of them from making forward progress.