What is deadlock? How do you avoid it?

Answer Posted / kalyani

Deadlock is permanent blocking of the set processes that
either compete for system resources or communicate each
other.
we can avoid deadlock by avoiding the following conditions:
1.Mutual Exclusion
2.Hold and wait.
3.No preemption.
4.circular wait.

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