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Practice Questions
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Question 1
Easy
What does a condition variable do?
💡 Hint: Think of it as a traffic light for processes.
Question 2
Easy
What operation do you call to wake up a process waiting on a condition variable?
💡 Hint: It's the opposite of waiting.
Practice 4 more questions and get performance evaluation
Interactive Quizzes
Engage in quick quizzes to reinforce what you've learned and check your comprehension.
Question 1
What is the purpose of a condition variable?
- a) To enable busy waiting
- b) To allow processes to sleep until a condition is true
- c) To increase process execution time
💡 Hint: Think about how processes manage their execution time.
Question 2
True or False: A signal() operation can wake multiple processes waiting on a condition variable.
- True
- False
💡 Hint: Remember the behavior of `signal()` in relation to waiting processes.
Solve and get performance evaluation
Challenge Problems
Push your limits with challenges.
Question 1
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.
Question 2
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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