Database System Concepts
Database System Concepts
7th Edition
ISBN: 9780078022159
Author: Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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A segment of code that cannot be entered and executed by more than one process at the same time is called _________________.

deadlock
critical section
semaphore
mutex
 
A process that does not enter a critical section but also prevents other processes from entering is creating _______________.

deadlock
mutual exclusion
lockout
starvation
 
Multiple processes that block each other indefinitely from entering a critical section are creating _____________.

mutual exclusion
starvation
deadlock
logout
 

Using semaphores.

s = 0 initially.
Process p1 executes the sequence: P(s); V(s); P(s); V(s);
Process p2 executes the sequence: V(s); V(s); P(s); V(s);

After both processes terminate, s=________.


3
1
0
2
 
monitor  is a low-level kernel function that implements a priority queue.
True or false
 
Processes can access and modify monitor variables without having to call the monitor's functions.

True
False
 
The correct monitor implementation of c.wait  places the calling process in a waiting queue.

True
False
 

Using a monitor with a priority queue

Process p1 calls wakeme(7) at time now = 2
Process p2 calls wakeme(2) at time now = 4
Process p3 calls wakeme(6) at time now = 1
Process p4 calls wakeme(3) at time now = 5

Process __________ leaves the monitor first.


p3
p4
p2
p1
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