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Best Open Video Playlist for System Calls Topic | Operating Systems
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Consider a process P running on a system with non-preemptive Kernel design. Consider following actions by P :(i) A blocking system call.(ii) Servicing a timer ... as ready.Which of the above actions always result in context-switch of P?
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what is seek system call? can anyone explain?
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GATE CSE 2021 Set 1 | Question: 14
Which of the following standard $C$ library functions will always invoke a system call when executed from a single-threaded process in a $\text{UNIX/Linux}$ operating system?$\textsf{exit}$\textsf{malloc}$\textsf{sleep}$\textsf{strlen}$
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UGC NET CSE | October 2020 | Part 2 | Question: 84
Assuming that the system call $\text{fork}()$ never fails, consider the following C program $P1$ and $P2$ ... but Statement $II$ is falseStatement $I$ is incorrect but Statement $II$ is true
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NIELIT 2017 DEC Scientific Assistant A - Section B: 37
How many times the word "PROCESS" will be printed when executing the following program ?main(){ printf("PROCESS"); fflush(); fork(); fork(); }$8$4$6$7$
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Andrew S. Tanenbaum (OS) Edition 4 Exercise 4 Question 9 (Page No. 333)
In UNIX and Windows, random access is done by having a special system call that moves the current position'' pointer associated with a file to a ... file. Propose an alternative way to do random access without having this system call.
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Andrew S. Tanenbaum (OS) Edition 4 Exercise 2 Question 4 (Page No. 174)
When an interrupt or a system call transfers control to the operating system, a kernel stack area separate from the stack of the interrupted process is generally used. Why?
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Andrew S. Tanenbaum (OS) Edition 4 Exercise 1 Question 29 (Page No. 83)
Figure $1-23$ shows that a number of UNIX system calls have no Win32 API equivalents. For each of the calls listed as having no Win32 equivalent, what are the consequences for a programmer of converting a UNIX program to run under Windows?
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Andrew S. Tanenbaum (OS) Edition 4 Exercise 1 Question 28 (Page No. 83)
To a programmer, a system call looks like any other call to a library procedure. Is it important that a programmer know which library procedures result in system calls? Under what circumstances and why?
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Andrew S. Tanenbaum (OS) Edition 4 Exercise 1 Question 23 (Page No. 82 - 83)
A file whose file descriptor is fd contains the following sequence of bytes$: 3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6, 5, 3, 5.$ The following system calls are made: ... a seek to byte $3$ of the file. What does buffer contain after the read has completed?
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Andrew S. Tanenbaum (OS) Edition 4 Exercise 1 Question 20 (Page No. 82)
For each of the following system calls, give a condition that causes it to fail: fork, exec, and unlink.
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Andrew S. Tanenbaum (OS) Edition 4 Exercise 1 Question 16 (Page No. 82)
When a user program makes a system call to read or write a disk file, it provides an indication of which file it wants, a pointer to the data buffer ... to the disk? Need the caller be blocked awaiting completion of the disk transfer?
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UPPCL AE 2018:54
Assume that a file is written using write $\text{(fd, buf, K)}$ system call, where $\text{fd}$ is the file descriptor and $\text{K}$ is the number of bytes to be written ... least $\text{K/D}$is equal to $\text{K/D}$is at most $\text{K/D}$
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UPPCL AE 2018:36
Consider the following program.#include<stdio.h> #include<stdlib.h> #include<unistd.h> int main(void) { pid_t pid; int varl = 100; pid = fork(); if(pid == 0) /* ... $100 \; 200 \; 200 \; 200$
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UPPCL AE 2018:19
Consider the following statements regarding interrupts.If a process is interrupted during system call handling then the $\text{OS}$ will crash.If a process is interrupted during system ... $\text{III}$ $\text{I}$ and $\text{III}$
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UGC NET CSE | November 2017 | Part 3 | Question: 75
Match the following WINDOWS system calls and UNIX system calls with reference to process control and File manipulation. ...
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General Topic Doubt Operating System: Fork
How is the answer coming out to be 32?
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