Advanced Python Programming

What is starvation?

It is quite common for a concurrent program to implement some sort of ordering between the different processes in its execution. For example, consider a program that has three separate processes, as follows:

• One is responsible for handling extremely pressing instructions that need to be run as soon as the necessary resources become available
• Another process is responsible for other important executions, which are not as essential as the tasks in the first process
• The last one handles miscellaneous, very infrequent tasks

Furthermore, these three process need to utilize the same resources in order to execute their respective instructions.

Intuitively, we have every reason to implement a specification that allows the first ...