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List and explain various ways to overcome deadlocks

List and explain various ways to overcome deadlocks.

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i)mutual exclusion;resources shared such as read-only files do not lead to deadlocks,such as printers and tape drives,requires exclusive access by a single process.
ii)hold and wait;in this condition processes must be prevented from holding one or more resources while simultaneously waiting for one or more processes.
iii)no preemption;preemption of process resources allocations can avoid the condition of deadlocks,where ever possible.

Softwaretech answered the question on April 23, 2019 at 10:25

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