Practice - Condition Variables
Practice Questions
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What does a condition variable do?
💡 Hint: Think of it as a traffic light for processes.
What operation do you call to wake up a process waiting on a condition variable?
💡 Hint: It's the opposite of waiting.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the purpose of a condition variable?
💡 Hint: Think about how processes manage their execution time.
True or False: A signal() operation can wake multiple processes waiting on a condition variable.
💡 Hint: Remember the behavior of `signal()` in relation to waiting processes.
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Challenge Problems
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Design a monitor that manages a shared buffer with condition variables for both a producer and a consumer. Write pseudocode including procedures for inserting and removing items.
💡 Hint: Focus on ensuring mutual exclusion and proper signaling between processes.
Critically analyze and discuss how condition variables could prevent deadlock situations in a system with multiple producers and consumers.
💡 Hint: Consider the interactions between multiple producers and consumers.
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