CS604-Midterm
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Mkfifo() is a _______.
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Linux is a version of _______ operating system.
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------------has a hierarchical file system structure.
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When a process opens its first file explicitly it will get descriptor number _________
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___________ is a solution to the problem of indefinite blockage of low-priority processes.
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A condition where a set of blocked processes each holding a resource and waiting to acquire a resource held by another process in the set is termed as ________.
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Each page is a power of -------- bytes long in paging scheme.
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Bounded Buffer is a buffer of ____________ size
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Each process must first request permission to enter its critical section. The section of code implementing this request is called the _____
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Which of the following is correct definition for wait operation?
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The procedure “The time at which the process finished working MINUS the arrival time of the process MINUS CPU burst for that process” will help calculate the _________.
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The hardware mechanism that enables a device to notify CPU is called an -------------
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Linux Treats Devices as Files.
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A time sharing system is
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In ________addressing, the recipient is not required to name the sender.
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You can use the rm file1 command to __________ file1
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--------------command to resume the execution of a suspended job in the foreground
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Using _________system, we can create a new process in Linux.
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A Process „A‟ that has finished working but its parent process has also finished its execution. In this state the process „A‟ will be called as _____ process.
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Cooperating processes never share any data, code, memory or state.
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Banker‟s algorithm is used for ________________
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___________ is a piece of code in a cooperating process in which the process may updates shared data (variable, file, database, etc.).
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When process opens its first file explicitly it will get descriptor number ______
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The manual pages can be read in Linux using ____ command.
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The scheduling of ______ are done by the operating system.
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______scheduler selects the process from the job pool and put them in main memory.
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Progress and Bounded Waiting are some of the characteristics to solve the critical section problems.
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The integer value of ________semaphores can range over an unrestricted integer domain.
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Mach, MacOS X Server, QNX, OS/2 and Windows NT are examples of OS Based on ______.
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First-Come, First-Served (FCFS) is a --------------scheduling algorithm.
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The priorities of processes in the __________ group remain fixed.
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A process consists of __________
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__________ scheduler selects the process from the job pool and put them in main memory.
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Preemptive ----------------scheduling is sometimes called shortestremaining-time-first scheduling.
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The process of switching from one process to another is called latency.
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I MB or 1 megabyte is equivalent to----
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__________ integer shows the highest priority of a process in CPU scheduling
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In ---------addressing; the recipient is not required to name the sender.
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The bottom-up view is that operating system is a resource manager who manages the hardware and software resources in the computer system.
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OS helps manages the following except
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________ determines What will be done.
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In ---------addressing, the recipient is not required to name the sender.
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Hardware provide basic computing resource.
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The number of processes completed per unit time is called ___________.
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I/O instructions are Privileged Instructions.
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The critical section problem can be solved by the following except
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____ command display the status of a process.
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Starvation is infinite blocking caused due to unavailability of resources.
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The process of switching from one process to another is called ---------------.
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Taking the CPU from one process and giving the CPU to another process is termed as
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