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The important thing here is another process is also in the same set. that means another
process also blocked and no one can proceed.
LiveLock
Each thread/process is repeating the same state again and again but doesn't progress
further. Something similar to a deadlock since the process can not enter the critical section.
However in a deadlock, processes are wait without doing anything but in livelock, the
processes are trying to proceed but processes are repeated to the same state again and
again.
(In a deadlocked computation there is no possible execution sequence which succeeds. but
In a livelocked computation, there are successful computations, but there are one or more
execution sequences in which no process enters its critical section.)
When deadlock happens, No execution will happen. but in livelock, some executions will
happen but those executions are not enough to enter the critical section.