Deadlock in Single threaded application

deadlock, multithreading, single-threaded

Solution

Yes, a single-threaded application can deadlock if you have locks that are not re-entrant and a thread attempts to reacquire a lock that it owns already (like via a recursive call).

Edit: I see that the post has been tagged "Java"; I don't know if that was an update or if I missed it before, but in any case locks in Java ARE re-entrant, so you won't be able to deadlock a single-threaded application in this manner.

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