Interview Q&A / Operating Systems
Operating Systems interview questions
Processes, threads, scheduling, memory and deadlocks, in plain words.
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- How does the Banker's algorithm decide whether a resource request is safe?
It pretends to grant the request, then checks whether some order exists in which every process can still finish with the resources left. If such a safe sequence exists, the request is granted; otherwise it waits.
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