9 Solving concurrency problems: Deadlocks and starvation
In this chapter:
- You learn how to identify and solve common concurrency problems: deadlocks, livelocks, and starvation
- You learn popular concurrency design patterns: the producer-consumer and readers-writer patterns
In the previous chapter, we explored the challenges that arise in concurrent programming, such as race conditions and the synchronization primitives used to address them. In this chapter, we focus on another set of common concurrency problems: deadlocks, livelocks, and starvation.
These problems can lead to extremely serious consequences, given that concurrency is used in all sorts of technology to which we quite literally entrust our lives. Two Boeing 737 Max airplanes crashed ...
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