CS604-Midterm
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Linux Treats Devices as Files.
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/usr/X11R6 is used by the X Window System.
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___________ algorithm is used in Deadlock avoidance.
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A process is said to be in critical section if it executes code that manipulates shared data
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A parent process calling __________ system call will be suspended until children process terminates.
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___________ is a solution to the problem of indefinite blockage of low-priority processes.
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The main characteristic of a Real time system is
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Each page is a power of -------- bytes long in paging scheme.
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In ---------addressing, the recipient is not required to name the sender.
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-------- command gives a snapshot of the current processes.
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The priority of a process can be changed using ___________ command.
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__________ scheduler selects the process from the job pool and put them in main memory.
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Swapper is also termed as Short term scheduler.
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__________ integer shows the highest priority of a process in CPU scheduling
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Mkfifo() is a _______.
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The -----------scheme is not applicable to a resource allocation system with multiple instances of each resource type.
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___________ is used in real time operating systems.
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Progress and Bounded Waiting are some of the characteristics to solve the critical section problems.
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The -------------- system call suspends the calling process.
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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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An operating system is a control program that manages the execution of user programs to prevent errors and improper use of a computer.
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The correct command for compiling C program named program.c in Linux environment is
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------------ register contains the size of the process
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What do we name to an address that is loaded into the memory-address register of the memory?
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The Home Directory for superuser in Linux and Unix is
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The address generated by the CPU, after any indexing or other addressing-mode arithmetic, is called a --------address, and the address it gets translated to by the MMU is called a ---------address.
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Which of the following is correct definition for wait operation?
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_____ system call is used to write to a file or FIFO or any other IPC channel.
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A semaphore that cause Busy-Waiting is termed as .
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Mach, MacOS X Server, QNX, OS/2 and Windows NT are examples of OS Based on ______.
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All threads within a process share the ________ address space.
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OS helps manages the following except
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An absolute pathname starts with the root directory (/) and a relative pathname starts with your home directory.
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A semaphore that cause Busy-Waiting is termed as ___________.
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Time interval when the I/O Devices are accessed is known as --------.
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When a process opens its first file explicitly it will get descriptor number _________
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_________ command to resume the execution of a suspended job in the foreground
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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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In Layered approach of OS, Lowest Layer is known as ________.
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If the fork system call fails, it returns
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You can use the rm file1 command to __________ file1
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In Linux directory structure, there is ___________ root directory.
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--------------command to resume the execution of a suspended job in the foreground
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The process of switching from one process to another is called ---------------.
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In ________addressing, the recipient is not required to name the sender.
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The Shortest-Job-First Scheduling algorithm can be
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Database, Complier, Video games are examples of ________.
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Operating System provides services such as Managing Primary and Secondary Storage, Processes and Allowing user to manage his/her files and directories.
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