Absence of a reachable deadlock. In the finite acquisition model under deadlock, reaching a nonterminal state with no enabled operation is a finite witness to failure, so this formulation is a safety property. Sometimes the phrase is used for eventual acquisition by some requester, a liveness property; the intended requirement must be stated. Neither formulation by itself promises starvation freedom for every requester.
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