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Line 42: # If P gets an election message (inquiry) from another process with a lower ID it sends an "I am alive" message back and starts new elections. Note that if P receives a victory message from a process with a lower ID number, it immediately initiates a new election. This is how the algorithm gets its name - a process with a higher ID number will bully a lower ID process out of the coordinator position as soon as it comes online. The next example shows a system with 4 processes in where process 2 notice the coordinator failure and launches the bully-algorithm: [[File:BullyAlgorithmExample.png\|600px \|link=http://i61.tinypic.com/23mwtvc.jpg ]] == See also ==

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