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Coffman conditions: a standalone construct

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Operating systems

the four conditions, mutual exclusion, hold and wait, no preemption and circular wait, that must all hold for a deadlock to occur.

In operating systems, Coffman conditions refers to the four conditions, mutual exclusion, hold and wait, no preemption and circular wait, that must all hold for a deadlock to occur. This meaning comes from Coffman (1971) in ACM Computing Surveys.[1]

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deadlock3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs resource4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs exclusion4 fields · 8 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Coffman, E. G., Elphick, M., & Shoshani, A. (1971). System Deadlocks. ACM Computing Surveys, 3(2), 67-78. https://doi.org/10.1145/356586.356588

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