Message passing provides a mechanism to allow processes to communicate and to synchronize their actions

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• A process that is based on IPC mechanism which executes on different systems and can communicate with other processes using message based communication, is called ________
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• In the token passing approach of distributed systems, processes are organized in a ring structure ____________
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•            is a process that prevents multiple threads or processes from accessing shared resources at the same time.
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