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What is a Phantom Deadlock?

April 26, 2017deadlock Phantom

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What is a Phantom Deadlock?

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In distributed deadlock detection, the delay in propagating local information might cause the deadlock detection algorithms to identify deadlocks that do not really exist. Such situations are called phantom deadlocks and they lead to unnecessary aborts.