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# Abandoned Lock

* another form of a deadlock through thread death.
* If one thread or process acquires a lock, and then terminates because of some unexpected reason, it may not automatically release the lock before it disappears.
* That leaves other tasks like me stuck waiting for a lock that will never be released and getting hungry.