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Deadlock avoidance and prevention




Deadlock Prevention

In order to prevent deadlock, the system is built in such a way that no deadlock occurs. Make sure that at least one of the four conditions in which deadlock can occur does not exist.

Attacking Hold and wait : In order to ensure that hold and wait condition never occurs, two protocols [...]



Deadlock situation




A deadlock is a situation wherein two or more competing actions are waiting for the other to finish, and thus neither ever does. In the computing world deadlock refers to a specific condition when two or more processes are each waiting for another to release a resource, or more than two processes are waiting for [...]