A document about deadlocks in operating systems is summarized as follows:
1. A deadlock occurs when a set of processes form a circular chain where each process is waiting for a resource held by the next process in the chain. The four conditions for deadlock are mutual exclusion, hold and wait, no preemption, and circular wait.
2. Deadlocks can be modeled using a resource allocation graph where processes and resources are vertices and edges represent resource requests. A cycle in the graph indicates a potential deadlock.
3. Methods for handling deadlocks include prevention, avoidance, and detection/recovery. Prevention ensures deadlock conditions cannot occur while avoidance allows the system to dynamically verify new allocations will not