Free Deadlocks lessonsDeadlocks · Stage 1 · Avoidance and detection · Step 2
Granting a request
Use the safety check to decide whether a process's request can be granted now, delayed, or must be refused. About 13 minutes.
A request is within the process's claim and there are enough free resources, but granting it leaves an unsafe state. What does the banker's algorithm do?
- AMakes the process wait, even though the resources are free
- BGrants it, since the resources are available
- CTerminates the process
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Makes the process wait, even though the resources are free. It won't move into an unsafe state.
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