Re: deadlock

2001-09-25 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:04:20AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please clear these two doubts of mine : > 1. When does a deadlock happen on a Unix/Linux system ? Hopefully never. ;) > 2. What is a deadlock ? My favorite explanation of deadlock wasn't talking about computers at all. You kn

Re: deadlock

2001-09-25 Thread Ricardo Diz
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 6:34 Subject: deadlock > Please clear these two doubts of mine : > 2. What is a deadlock ? I'll answer this one first since it makes more sense. A deadlock can be defined as blocking stage that process

Re: deadlock

2001-09-25 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please clear these two doubts of mine : > 1. When does a deadlock happen on a Unix/Linux system ? > 2. What is a deadlock ? Deadlock isn't a Unix/Linux concept, it's a programming concept. It happens when you have two processes or threads and two re