To ensure difficulties do not arise in the readers – writers problem                are given exclusive access to the shared object.

Related MCQs

• Concurrent access to shared data may result in                          
• A minimum of            variable(s) is/are required to be shared between processes to solve the critical section problem.
• When several processes access the same data concurrently and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in which the access takes place, is called?
• A situation where several processes access and manipulate the same data concurrently and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in which access takes place is called                          
• If the memory access time is denoted by ‘ma’ and ‘p’ is the probability of a page fault (0 <= p <= 1). Then the effective access time for a demand paged memory is
• For a deadlock to arise, which of the following conditions must hold simultaneously?
• Which one of the following is not shared by threads?
• Another solution to the problem of external fragmentation problem is to                          
• With round robin scheduling algorithm in a time shared system                          
• A semaphore is a shared integer variable