Deadlocks

Ignore it

Sometimes disparagingly called the 'ostrich algorithm', 'cos it's like sticking one's head in the sand and hoping the problem will go away.

Deadlock situations may be many and subtle, and it is often certainly not possible to recover from deadlocks, or dynamically avoid them in practice. In general, though, when designing a system, be it an OS, or a program with cooperating threads, it is better to try to prevent deadlocks than it is to ignore them completely.