Interview Question
Created by admin on Sat, 17/11/2012 - 17:20
Question:
List the Coffman's conditions that lead to a deadlock.
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Answer:
Mutual Exclusion: Only one process may use a critical resource at a time, Hold & Wait: A process may be allocated some resources while waiting for others, No Pre-emption: No resource can be forcible removed from a process holding it, Circular Wait: A closed chain of processes exist such that each process holds at least one resource needed by another process in the chain.