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What are the conditions that lead to a deadlock in a system?

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What are the conditions that lead to a deadlock in a system?
posted Nov 21, 2013 by Luv Kumar

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Following are the ones which I know
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.

answer Nov 21, 2013 by Salil Agrawal
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