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i)preemption;take a resource from one process and give it to other,this will resolve the deadlock situations.
ii)roll back;in situation where deadlock is a real possibility,rolling back everything back to the last checkpoint and restart,but allocating resources differently so that a deadlock does not occur.
iii)kill one or more processes;is the simplest way which works very fast.
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