What is difference between deadlock and starvation?



What is difference between deadlock and starvation?..

Answer / Lalit Kumar Chaudhary

Deadlock occurs when two or more processes are blocked, each waiting for the other to release a resource they need. Starvation happens when a process is not given access to resources it needs over an extended period, even though no deadlock exists.

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