Technician Interview Question:

Explain he Coffman's conditions that lead to a deadlock?

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☛ 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.
Submitted by: Muhammad