Deadlock: Conditions, Prevention, Detection and Recovery
A set of processes is deadlocked when every process in the set is waiting for an event that only another process in the set can cause.
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Deadlock
The four necessary conditions, resource-allocation and wait-for graphs, prevention by breaking a condition, avoidance with the Banker's safety and request algorithms, detection with the Request matrix, recovery, and the minimum number of resources that rules deadlock out.
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Deadlock Avoidance and the Banker's Algorithm
Prevention makes deadlock impossible by restricting how processes request resources.
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