Circular Wait is when each process involved in the impasse is waiting for another to voluntarily release the resource so that at least one will be able to continue on.
According to the circular wait situation, a chain of processes exists in which each process is waiting for a resource that is being held by a different process. To avoid the cyclical wait situation, define a linear ordering of resource types (e.g. Directed Acyclic Graph). A process may only seek resources of types that come after R in the ordering if it has already been given resources of type R.
Numbering all resources and requiring that programs only request them in strictly increasing (or decreasing) order are two ways to eliminate the circular wait. In other words, before a process can request the resource Rj, all of the Ri must be released so that I >= j.
Confucius and The Golden Rule. Much of the writing of the famous Chinese philosopher Confucius is about human relationships. He argued that respect and responsibilities should flow in both directions in any relationship. We learned that Confucius wrote one of the earliest versions of the Golden Rule: Do to others as you would have them do to you.
TRUE: any positively charged object will be attracted to any negatively charged object. It does not
matter how the objects acquired the charge, the attraction only depends on the amount of charge, and
the distance between the two charged objects.
