Deadlock Will Continue to Be an Important Area of Research

Multiple Choice

Deadlock will continue to be an important area of research in current and future systems because ________.

A) large-scale systems are becoming more oriented toward asynchronous parallel operations
B) small, portable devices, for which users cannot rely on an administrator to detect and rid a system of deadlock, are becoming more prevalent
C) there is an increasing tendency of operating systems designers to view data as a resource that must be managed carefully
D) all of the above