System Deadlocks
Open Access
- 1 June 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM Computing Surveys
- Vol. 3 (2), 67-78
- https://doi.org/10.1145/356586.356588
Abstract
A problem of increasing importance in the design of large multiprogramming systems is the, so-called, deadlock or deadly-embrace problem. In this article we survey the work that has been done on the treatment of deadlocks from both the theoretical and practical points of view.Keywords
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