CS604-Midterm
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In ---------addressing; the recipient is not required to name the sender.
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The following requirement for solving critical section problem is known as ______. “There exists a bound on the number of times that other processes are allowed to enter their critical sections after a process has made a request to enter its critical section and before that request is granted.”
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In ---------addressing, the recipient is not required to name the sender.
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n-process critical section problem can be solved by using
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Starvation is infinite blocking caused due to unavailability of resources.
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-------- command gives a snapshot of the current processes.
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Preventing a condition of ________ to happen, deadlocks can be prevented to happen.
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The number of processes completed per unit time is called ___________.
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_________ command to resume the execution of a suspended job in the foreground
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When a process opens its first file explicitly it will get descriptor number _________
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When process opens its first file explicitly it will get descriptor number ______
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________ determines What will be done.
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The execution of critical sections must NOT be mutually exclusive
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User mode can run the Privileged instructions.
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_________buffer places no practical limit on the size of the buffer
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This condition is known as ______________.
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The hardware mechanism that enables a device to notify CPU is called an -------------
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The priority of a process can be changed using ___________ command.
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I MB or 1 megabyte is equivalent to----
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Swapper is also termed as Short term scheduler.
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I/O instructions are Privileged Instructions.
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Utilities used for system administration (halt, ifconfig, fdisk, etc.) are stored in _____________ directory.
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The interval from the time of submission to the time of completion is the ______
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Mach, MacOS X Server, QNX, OS/2 and Windows NT are examples of OS Based on ______.
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In ________addressing, the recipient is not required to name the sender.
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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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Cooperating processes never share any data, code, memory or state.
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In indirect inter process communication, a sender ________ mention the name of the recipient.
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First _______ entries in Per Process File Descriptor Table are used as soon as the process is created.
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Kernel is responsible for scheduling the user level threads.
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POSIX is a standard developed by ANSI
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--------------command to resume the execution of a suspended job in the foreground
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Which register holds the smallest legal physical memory address for a process?
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In Unix/ Linux, by default the standard output file is attached to the ___________
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The manual pages can be read in Linux using ____ command.
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The Shortest-Job-First Scheduling algorithm can be
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IPC provides a mechanism to allow processes to communicate and to synchronize their actions without sharing the same__________
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A ---------------- (or an exception) is a software-generated interrupt caused either by an error (division by zero or invalid memory access) or by a user request for an operating system service.
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The Home Directory for superuser in Linux and Unix is
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________________ is an integer variable accessible through wait and signal which are atomic operations.
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The time it takes for the dispatcher to stop one process and start another running is known as the-----------.
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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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A parent process calling __________ system call will be suspended until children process terminates.
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The _______ are used for communication between related or unrelated processes on the same system or unrelated processes on different systems.
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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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OS helps manages the following except
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You can display all of the signals supported by your system, along with their numbers, by using the -----------command
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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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You can use the rm file1 command to __________ file1
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Managing Secondary Storage Involves all of the Following except
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