0 votes 0 votes How spooling can help in preventing mutual exclusion? Operating System operating-system deadlock-prevention-avoidance-detection + – Mahendra Singh Kanya asked Dec 12, 2017 Mahendra Singh Kanya 770 views answer comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.
0 votes 0 votes spooling is a temporary buffer area so non sharable device like printer ,os do use a spooling area to print data through printer instead of direct printing so by using spooling we removed mutual exclusion involving printer abhishek tiwary answered Dec 12, 2017 abhishek tiwary comment Share Follow See all 2 Comments See all 2 2 Comments reply Mahendra Singh Kanya commented Dec 12, 2017 reply Follow Share But then again only one program(process) can print at a time. So mutual exclusion is still present?? 0 votes 0 votes Ram Swaroop commented Jun 18, 2019 reply Follow Share Actually mutual exclusion is not a practical solution of deadlock prevention There's only one practical solution to remove circular wait by arranging the request made by processes in increasing order 0 votes 0 votes Please log in or register to add a comment.