Message passing system allows processes to                      

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• Which facility dynamically adds probes to a running system, both in user processes and in the kernel?
• Which process can be affected by other processes executing in the system?
• A parent process calling            system call will be suspended until children processes terminate.
• A system has 3 processes sharing 4 resources. If each process needs a maximum of 2 units then, deadlock                          
• To                to a safe state, the system needs to keep more information about the states of processes.
• The operating system and the other processes are protected from being modified by an already running process because