Question: The producer and consumer ring buffer problem that you ran for assignment 4 would, from time to time, encounter a test run that resulted in
The producer and consumer ring buffer problem that you ran for assignment would, from time to time, encounter a test run that resulted in a deadlock. When the control script completed a series of test runs it would print out the number of deadlocks that occurred during the testing. How could a deadlock happen with this code
the producer would wait for space on a full RB Ring Buffer while all consumers were waiting on an empty RB
the system ran out of physical memory to povide to the producer
a single consumer was waiting on an empty RB while the producer was still running
the producer was waiting for a consumer to make a space in specific RB while consumers were accessing other RBs
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