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What is the disadvantage of critical section in operating system?
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- Higher priority threads may be asked to wait for an indefinite amount of time
- Implementation of critical section is not an easy task (from programming perspective), since it has to consider all the possible collateral risks
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What software is most critical for the hardware?
operating system
Why can't a process disable the interrupts to avoid context switch while in the critical section to avoid the race condition?
Because only the operating system has that authority.
What is critical section in operating system?
A critical section is a piece of code that accesses a shared resource (either in the form of data structure or a device) that must not be concurrently accessed by more than one thread of execution (which will otherwise lock it from doing other things).Note: Note that on Windows NT (not 9x/ME), the function TryEnterCriticalSection() can be used to attempt to enter the critical section.
What are the disadvantages of an operating system?
One Disadvantage For an operating System Is that Your hardware will not be able to work at all until you wrote your own code for the hardware to do what you want it to do .
What is the heart of the operating system that controls the most critical process?
The kernel.
Advantages disadvantages of realtime operating system?
There are several advantages and disadvantages of having a real time operating system. One disadvantage is unseen errors, an advantage is timing.
What is the heart of operating system and control and control the moist critical processes?
kernal
What is usually the critical performance requirement in an interactive operating system?
Response Time
When are most operating system critical files loaded and run?
At boot up.
Windows 2000XP calls what files critical to a successful operating system load the?
system state data
What are four hardware components controlled by an Operating System?
Four of the most critical components controlled by an operating system are: CPU, RAM, Hard Drive and Motherboard.
Disadvantage of using network-level broadcast to locate resources in a single Ethernet?
what is networking & operating system
