5) Consider a system having 'm' resources of the same type. These resources are shared by 3 processes A, B, C, which have peak time demands of 3, 4, 6 respectively. The minimum value of 'm' that ensures that deadlock will never occur is

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Consider a system having 'm' resources of the same type. These resources are shared by 3 processes A, B, C, which have peak time demands of 3, 4, 6 respectively. The minimum value of 'm' that ensures that deadlock will never occur is

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6) The methods for dealing with the deadlock problem is

Answer is:

all of these

Explanation:

The methods for dealing with the deadlock problem is
* Use a protocol to make sure that the system never enters in to the deadlock state.
* Allow the system to enter a deadlock state and then recover.
* Ignore the problem, and pretend that deadlocks never occur in the system. The UNIX operating system uses this solution.