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Deadlock: Detection, Prevention, Avoidance

Lesson 6 · OKSTEM College · AS Computer Science

Deadlock: Detection, Prevention, Avoidance

Work through the concepts, then test yourself with the knowledge check.

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Knowledge Check

The four necessary conditions for deadlock (Coffman conditions) are:

Correct — all four must hold simultaneously for deadlock.
These are related but separate concurrency problems.
One condition alone is not sufficient; all four must hold.
Two conditions alone are not sufficient for deadlock.
📖 Quick Recap

Starvation and livelock are separate from deadlock. The four deadlock conditions are: mutual exclusion, hold-and-wait, no preemption, circular wait.

📖 Quick Recap

Each condition is necessary but not sufficient. Deadlock requires all four simultaneously.

📖 Quick Recap

All four Coffman conditions must hold: mutual exclusion, hold-and-wait, no preemption, AND circular wait.

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