Question

One way to ensure that the circular wait condition never holds is to ____________

(a) impose a total ordering of all resource types and to determine whether one precedes another in the ordering

(b) to never let a process acquire resources that are held by other processes

(c) to let a process wait for only one resource at a time

(d) all of the mentioned

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Asked question is from Deadlock Prevention in division Deadlocks of Operating System

Answer 1

The correct choice is (a) impose a total ordering of all resource types and to determine whether one precedes another in the ordering

Explanation: None.