What is the difference among deadlock avoidance, detection and
prevention?



What is the difference among deadlock avoidance, detection and prevention?..

Answer / rumesh babu s

Deadlock Avoidance - Providing additional information in advance about which resource a process will request and use during its lifetime.

Deadlock Prevention - It provides set of methods to ensure that at least one of the necessary conditions for deadlock cannot hold .

Deadlock Detection - It provides a method that examines the state of the system to determine whether deadlock has occurred or not . It provides method to recover from deadlock.

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