Coffmans conditions which lead to a deadlock

List out the Coffman's conditions which lead to a deadlock?

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i) Mutual Exclusion: Only one process might employ a critical resource at a time.

ii) Hold & Wait: A process might be allocated a number of resources while waiting for others.

iii) No Pre-emption: no resource can be forcibly eliminated from a process holding it.

iv) Circular Wait: It is the closed chain of processes exists such that each and every process holds at least one resource needed by any other process in the chain.

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