Operating Systems Flashcards
1
Q
what are some process issues?
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2
Q
what are threads?
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3
Q
when would you use threads?
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4
Q
what are some concurrency issues?
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5
Q
what are locks?
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6
Q
what are mutexes?
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7
Q
what are semaphores?
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8
Q
what are monitors?
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9
Q
what is deadlock?
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10
Q
what is livelock?
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11
Q
how can you avoid livelock and deadlock?
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12
Q
what resources does a process need?
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13
Q
what resources does a thread need?
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14
Q
how does context switching work?
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15
Q
how is context switching initianted by the operating system and underlying hardware?
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