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| livelock comparison table | ||||
| Subject | hang | has definition | appear as | is a kind of | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| deadlock or livelock | failure | |||
| livelock | a system | A failure in which a system can never get out of a limited set of states, although it is not in deadlock | a hung system where the system is still consuming CPU time | deadlock or livelock | 
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