KERALA UNIVERSITY Class 5 operating systems Question Paper 2021

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Sample Questions

Give any two examples of information maintenance system calls.
How do the semantics of Immutable-Shared-File allow sharing of the file?
Is a monitor better than a semaphore? Why?
Compare and contrast paging with segmentation. In particular, describe issue related to fragmentation.
Consider a system consisting four resources of the same type that are shared by three processes, each of which needs at most two resources. Is this system deadlock free? Why? $$ \text { ( } 5 \times 4=20 \text { Marks) } $$