when multiple processes
need resources to complete execution that are being held
up?
THIS STATE IS CALLED AS DEADLOCK
- a deadlock is a state
in which each process of a group is waiting for another , including
itself, to take action.
- A
deadlock occurs when a process or
thread enters a waiting state because a requested system resource
is held by another waiting process, which in turn is waiting for
another resource held by another waiting process.
RESOURCE DEADLOCK
- resource deadlock is one of the type of deadlock
- Resource Deadlock
Occurs when
processes are trying to get exclusive access to devices, files,
locks, servers, or other resources.
- In
Resource deadlock model, a process waits
until it has received all the resources that it has
requested.