Goal

• Understand the cause of deadlocks and figure out what is the best solution.

Reading Assignments

• MOS Chapter 3

Discussion Topics

• The textbook lists four conditions for a deadlock (3.2.1).  Discuss what happen if we remove any one of them.

• The textbook also lists four strategies to deal with the deadlock problem (3.3.2): Just ignore the problem, detect and recover, avoid deadlocks by careful resource allocation, prevent deadlocks by negating one of necessary condition.  Explain which strategy would you prefer and what method would you like within the strategy?