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Competition for resources

• Mutual exclusion
  • critical resources (nonsharable)
  • a process manages each critical resource

• Deadlock
  • a process is holding a critical resource (c1) and waiting for another critical resource (c2)
  • another process is holding (c2) and waiting for (c1)

• Starvation
  • one process is never granted access to a critical resource for other processes always get higher priority (and access) to the critical resource

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