The _________ condition can be prevented by requiring that a process request all of its required resources at one time and blocking the process until all requests can be granted simultaneously.
A) mutual exclusion
B) hold and wait
C) circular wait
D) no preemption

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The condition described in the question is the hold and wait condition, which can be prevented by adopting the strategy of requiring processes to request all necessary resources at once and blocking them until all are granted simultaneously. This approach is known as the wait-die approach. The other options listed in the question (mutual exclusion, circular wait, and no preemption) are other types of deadlock conditions that would not be addressed by this solution.

The _________ Condition Can Be Prevented by Requiring That a Process