My point is just that it's possible to construct one in any system that static analysis will be unable to detect or prevent. If you can construct it, it can also happen by accident.
> My point is just that it's possible to construct one in any system that static analysis will be unable to detect or prevent. If you can construct it, it can also happen by accident.
most people implement "block on API response", because that's way easier to reason about, sometimes, even without timeout. Reading through the thread, what I was misunderstanding is that this situation technically gets rolled into what called a "livelock". Fine, but from the higher-level API consumer's POV it's a deadlock.
