c5 System Software and Operating System May 2022
c5 System Software and Operating System May 2022
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Name : .....................
Part A
Answer any ten questions.
Each question carries 2 marks.
3. What is backtracking?
5. What is RTOS?
19. Show that, if the wait() and signal () semaphore operations are not executed atomically,
then mutual exclusion may be violated.
20. Consider a system consisting of four resources of the same type that are shared by three
processes, each of which needs at most two resources. Show that the system is deadlock
free.
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