February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
16h 50m
English
Content preview from Advanced Python Programming
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Approaches to deadlock situations
As we have seen, deadlock can lead our concurrent programs to an infinite hang, which is undesirable in every way. In this section, we will be discussing potential approaches to prevent deadlocks from occurring. Intuitively, each approach looks to eliminate one of the four Coffman conditions from our program, in order to prevent deadlocks.