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What is deadlock?
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Deadlock is a situation in which two or more processes are unable to to proceed because each is waiting for one of the others to do something.
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What is Mutual exclusion?
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The requirement that when one processes is in a critical section that access shared resources, no other process may be in a critical section that accesses any of those shared resources.
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What is starvation?
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A situation in which a runnable process is overlooked indefinetly by the scheduler; although it is able to proceed, it is never chosen.
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Illustrate the principle of address validation during conversion from a logical address to a physical address.
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