Deadlocks in operating systems

The short answer to your question is 'no'.

See the link below for a discussion of the matter:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Operating_System_Design/Concurrency/Deadlock

Javeed M Shaikh15y ago

Hi Jon,

Deadlock can occur whenever there is waiting,A deadlock can happen with any kind of resource. So if you want to remove deadlock you need to avoid these basic conditions:

1. Limited access (lock-protected resources).

2. No preemption (if someone has the resource, it can't be taken away).

3. Wait while holding (holding a resource while requesting and waiting for the next resource).

4. Circular chain of requests.

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