https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/tags/i/o/Recent content in I/O on The Lone C++ Coder's BlogHugo -- gohugo.ioenWed, 04 Apr 2018 07:00:17 +0000https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2018/04/04/can-you-get-a-deadlock-with-a-single-lock-and-an-io-operation/Wed, 04 Apr 2018 07:00:17 +0000Timo Geuschhttps://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2018/04/04/can-you-get-a-deadlock-with-a-single-lock-and-an-io-operation/<p>Quite a while ago, I answered a question about <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17252441/can-someone-please-show-me-a-simple-deadlock-with-two-threads-example-in-c/17252501?noredirect=1#comment84906518_17252501">the basic deadlock scenario</a> on Stack Overflow. More recently, I got an interesting comment on it. The poster asked if it was possible to get a deadlock with a single lock and an I/O operation. My first gut reaction was &ldquo;no, not really&rdquo;, but it got me thinking. So let&rsquo;s try to unroll the scenario and see if we can reason at least about my gut feeling.</p>