Deadlocks
Let's get familiar with deadlocks and learn how to avoid them in concurrent programming.
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What is a deadlock?
A deadlock occurs when all processes are blocked while waiting for each other and the program cannot proceed further.
Let’s have a look at the conditions for a deadlock to occur:
Coffman Conditions
There are four conditions, known as the Coffman Conditions, that must be present simultaneously for a deadlock to occur:
Mutual Exclusion
A concurrent process holds at least one resource at any one time making it non-sharable.
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