Chapter 3 Quiz

A process control block __________.

Includes information on the process's state

The __________ process is assigned as the parent to orphan processes.

Init

A blocking send() and blocking receive() is known as a/an ___________.

Rendezvous

The __________ application is the application appearing on the display screen of a mobile device.

Foreground

The list of processes waiting for a particular I/O device is called a/an __________.

Device queue

Shared memory is a more appropriate IPC mechanism than message passing for distributed systems.

False

The difference between a program and a process is that a program is an active entity while a process is a passive entity.

False

A socket is identified by an IP address concatenated with a port number.

True

The Mach operating system treats system calls with message passing.

True

In a/an ___________ temporary queue, the sender must always block until the recipient receives the message.

Zero Capacity