👉 In computer science, a deadlock occurs when more than one process is waiting to acquire resources that are already held by other processes. In other words, there is no way for any process to acquire the resource it needs without first acquiring the necessary resources from another process. Deadlocks can occur in various situations such as when multiple threads are trying to access shared resources simultaneously, or when a system is in an inconsistent state (i.e., where different parts of the system are not synchronized with each other). Dead