Explain the term deadlock

Briefly explain the term ‘deadlock’?

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- It is a condition where a collection of two or more waiting for the resources currently in use by another processes of the similar group.

- In this condition every procedure is waiting for an event to be triggered through another procedure of the group.

- Since no thread can open the resource a deadlock happens and the application hangs.

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