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- Copyright (C) 1988, 1998 On-Line Applications Research Corporation (OAR)
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term: priority inversion
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A form of indefinite postponement which occurs when a high priority tasks
requests access to shared resource currently allocated to low priority
task. The high priority task must block until the low priority task
releases the resource.
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