Video Overview

• What is a dead lock?
  • 2 threads are stuck waiting for lock held by another thread
• Simple ways to prevent dead lock?
  • Don't use multiple locks if possible
  • Use same order of lock/unlock (hard to remember)
    • Show this works with thread/sleep

Titles

• Why Your Multithreaded C++ Code Randomly Stops Running (Deadlocks Explained)
• The C++ Concurrency Mistake Every Developer Makes Eventually
• What Happens When Two Threads Try to Lock the Same Mutex?
• What is a Deadlock in C++?

References

• ChatGPT and Gemini