What does it mean for a class method to be static? It means the method is private. It means the method is public. It means the method can be called on the class only (ie. ClassName.method(). It means the method can be called on the class as well as on objects of that class (ie. ClassName.method() and object.method()). However, note that it is convention to call static methods on the Class name, not on objects.

Please refer to this textbook: “A. Silberschatz, P. B. Galvin and G. Gagne, “Operating System Principles,”7th Edition, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2006.”   And answer the following questions: Question: Which mutual exclusion algorithm requires, on average, the fewest messages in a group of 100 machines? centralized. Token-ring. Lamport' s . Ricart & Agrawala

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Consider the following ls -l output:   -rwxr-xr-- 2 fred     users     0 Jan 26 13:08 22   sample.mp3   a. Read, write, and execute b. Read, execute c. Read, write d. Only read