Exam 5: Concurrency: Mutual Exclusion and Synchronization

A __________ is a programming language construct that encapsulates variables, access procedures, and initialization code within an abstract data type.

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Question 41

It is possible for one process to lock the mutex and for another process to unlock it.

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Question 42

The sharing of main memory among processes is useful to permit efficient and close interaction among processes because such sharing does not lead to any problems.

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Question 43

One of the most common problems faced in concurrent processing is the producer/consumer problem.

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Question 44

A situation in which a runnable process is overlooked indefinitely by the scheduler, although it is able to proceed, is __________ .

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Question 45

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A __________ is a programming language construct that encapsulates variables, access procedures, and initialization code within an abstract data type.

It is possible for one process to lock the mutex and for another process to unlock it.

The sharing of main memory among processes is useful to permit efficient and close interaction among processes because such sharing does not lead to any problems.

One of the most common problems faced in concurrent processing is the producer/consumer problem.

A situation in which a runnable process is overlooked indefinitely by the scheduler, although it is able to proceed, is __________ .

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