Operating Systems - Homework 2

Due : Thursday October 23, 2003

Answer all questions.

All questions are from Silberschatz, & Galvin, & and Gagne, Sixth Edition.

  1. p236, Question 7.1 (What is the meaning.....)
  2. p236, Question 7.4 ( The first know .... Dekker. .... )
  3. p237, Question 7.7 ( Show that .... )
  4. Write a solution to the Cigarette-Smokers Problem p237-8, Question 7.9 using semaphores
  5. Write a solution to the Cigarette-Smokers Problem p237-8, Question 7.9 using locks and condition variables


Paul Farrell