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Operating Systems

406Resource allocation graphs
407Request edges and assignment edges
408Claim edges
409Reusable versus consumable resources
410Coffman conditions: mutual exclusion
411Coffman conditions: hold and wait
412Coffman conditions: no preemption
413Coffman conditions: circular wait
414Wait-for graphs
415Cycle detection in graphs
416Safe and unsafe states
417Banker's algorithm: the idea
418Banker's algorithm: safety algorithm
419Banker's algorithm: resource-request algorithm
420Banker's algorithm worked example
421Deadlock detection with multiple instances
422Recovery by process termination
423Recovery by resource preemption
424Rollback and checkpoints
425Ostrich algorithm
426Breaking hold and wait
427Breaking circular wait with ordering
428Two-phase locking and deadlock
429Deadlock in databases
430Distributed deadlock detection
431Edge chasing algorithm
432Livelock examples
433Resource starvation
434Deadlocks in interrupt handlers
435Real-world deadlock case studies

Operating Systems

406Resource allocation graphs
407Request edges and assignment edges
408Claim edges
409Reusable versus consumable resources
410Coffman conditions: mutual exclusion
411Coffman conditions: hold and wait
412Coffman conditions: no preemption
413Coffman conditions: circular wait
414Wait-for graphs
415Cycle detection in graphs
416Safe and unsafe states
417Banker's algorithm: the idea
418Banker's algorithm: safety algorithm
419Banker's algorithm: resource-request algorithm
420Banker's algorithm worked example
421Deadlock detection with multiple instances
422Recovery by process termination
423Recovery by resource preemption
424Rollback and checkpoints
425Ostrich algorithm
426Breaking hold and wait
427Breaking circular wait with ordering
428Two-phase locking and deadlock
429Deadlock in databases
430Distributed deadlock detection
431Edge chasing algorithm
432Livelock examples
433Resource starvation
434Deadlocks in interrupt handlers
435Real-world deadlock case studies

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