Thursday, March 24, 2011

List the Coffman's conditions that lead to a deadlock.


Ø  Mutual Exclusion: Only one process may use a critical resource at a time.
Ø  Hold & Wait: A process may be allocated some resources while waiting for others.
Ø  No Pre-emption: No resource can be forcible removed from a process holding it.
Ø  Circular Wait: A closed chain of processes exist such that each process holds at least one resource needed by another process in the chain.

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