Good example of livelock?

Question

I understand what livelock is, but I was wondering if anyone had a good code-based example of it? And by code-based, I do not mean \"two people trying to get p

Answer 1

One example here might be using a timed tryLock to obtain more than one lock and if you can't obtain them all, back off and try again.

boolean tryLockAll(Collection locks) {
  boolean grabbedAllLocks = false;
  for(int i=0; i= 0; j--) {
        lock.unlock();
      }
    }
  }
}

I could imagine such code would be problematic as you have lots of threads colliding and waiting to obtain a set of locks. But I'm not sure this is very compelling to me as a simple example.