Livelock

• Livelock describes situation where two threads are busy responding to actions of each other. 

• They keep repeating a particular code so the program is unable to make further progress:

• Thread 1 acts as a response to action of thread 2

• Thread 2 acts as a response to action of thread 1

• Unlike deadlock, threads are not blocked when livelock occurs. 

• They are simply too busy responding to each other to resume work. 

• In other words, the program runs into an infinite loop and cannot proceed further.