Multiple choice

Which of the following necessary and sufficient condition of deadlock shows that the resources are used in the processes must be non-sharable?

  1. Hold and wait

  2. Mutual exclusion

  3. Non-preemptive

  4. Circular wait

  5. None of these
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B Correct answer
Explanation

This condition determines that there must be at least one unsharable resource so that the processes claim exclusive control of resources they need.

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