what is the condition required for dead lock in unix sustem ?

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what is the condition required for dead lock in unix sustem ?..

Answer / kumar

deadlock occurs because of
1.no preembtion
2.circular waiting i.e.. when A process is waiting for the
resources which are held by the procees B,which is waiting
for the resources engaged by process A.

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what is the condition required for dead lock in unix sustem ?..

Answer / sumeetece

If a program tries to call pthread_mutex_lock on a mutex
that it already has locked then the program will block.Since
the thread that holds the lock is the one that is now
blocked, the mutex can never be unlocked and the program is
DEADLOCKED.

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