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

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

Answer / guest

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.

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

Answer / durgalakshmi

mutal exclusion
hold and wait
no preemption circular wait

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