Question

What is hold and wait condition?

Answer 1

A dead lock situation on a resource can arise if and only if all of the following conditions hold simultaneously in a system .Hold and wait resource holding: a process is currently holding at least one resource and requesting additional resources which are being held by other process.

Answer 2

A deadlock situation on a resource can arise if and only if all of the following conditions hold simultaneously in a system. Hold and Wait or resource holding: a process is currently holding at least one resource and requesting additional resources which are being held by other process.