Here are 2 articles that I find interesting:

http://james-iry.blogspot.gr/2009/04/erlang-style-actors-are-all-about.html
http://james-iry.blogspot.gr/2009/04/erlang-style-actors-are-all-about_16.html


2013/4/8 Eric Hill <[email protected]>

> Agreed.  The term deadlock usually indicates two bits of code contending
> for the same resource.  In a message-oriented system, the message becomes
> the resource, and since one bit of code always hands the resource off to
> another bit of code, that type of deadlock cannot happen.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:22 PM, A. Mark <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Yes that could happen, I would say that would not be considered a
>> deadlock in a classic sense. That's more like a protocol design flaw,
>> you're blocked on a message.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Timothee Besset <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I've also had deadlock cases where two threads would use several zmq
>>> sockets to communicate with each other (for instance with both a REP/REQ
>>> and a PAIR)
>>>
>>> It's easy in those cases to have deadlocks, unless you use a poll to
>>> wait on all of them at the same time.
>>>
>>> TTimo
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Garrett Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 11:52 AM, A. Mark <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> > Yes I agree, I've not had a single deadlock in a classic sense since
>>>> using
>>>> > message queues. But this statement is like saying I've hand not  a car
>>>> > accident since I've been riding a bike. You can still lock up your
>>>> code but
>>>> > it will not be a classic deadlock. I guess you could incorrectly code
>>>> > something with message queues and have it lock up occasionally.
>>>>
>>>> The one area I keep an eye on in shared-nothing single threaded
>>>> applications is accidentally waiting on one's self -- this is easy to
>>>> do, but also easy to detect and fix!
>>>>
>>>> Garrett
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     Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis
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