Answer to Question #258602 in Electrical Engineering for zxcvbnm,.

Question

Give one real-life example in Computers of Deadlock 

and how to prevent it from occurring?

Answer 1

For example, program A needs computing resources to run, and program B needs the same resource. These two programs can't both run together because the resource is locked by either program while another program waits for the resource.

Ways to prevent this from happening:

• Mutual Exclusion
• Hold and Wait
• Circular Waiting