Deadlocks – Conditions, prevention, avoidance, detection, and recovery

What is a deadlock in an operating system?

Which of the following is NOT one of Coffman’s four necessary conditions for deadlock?

How does deadlock prevention work in operating systems?

Which algorithm is most commonly used for deadlock avoidance?

In deadlock avoidance, what does a safe state mean?

How does a system typically perform deadlock detection?

In a Resource Allocation Graph (RAG), what indicates a deadlock?

Which of the following is a valid deadlock recovery technique?

Which deadlock handling strategy is followed by most general-purpose operating systems (like UNIX, Windows)?

What is the key difference between deadlock and starvation?