FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
1. What is a deadlock?
2. List three examples of deadlocks that are not related to a computer system environment.
- 3. What are the necessary conditions for deadlock to occur?
- 4. Is it possible to have a deadlock involving only one single process? Explain your answer.
5. What are deadlock prevention techniques?
- 6. What is a Safe State and what is its use in deadlock avoidance?
7. When is a system in safe state?
8. Explain about deadlocks in operating systems?
9. What is the difference among deadlock avoidance, detection and prevention?