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What is the mechanism used for deadlock handling in Unix?

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What is the mechanism used for deadlock handling in Unix?

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Unix ignores deadlocks. It works on the assumption that since any deadlock handling technique has a tremendous overhead in implementation, users would prefer an occasional deadlock to having an overloaded system. The observed incidence of deadlocks in actual practice is low enough to justify this assumption.

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