10 Questions
What is the maximum number of processes that a link can be associated with?
A link can be associated with at most two processes.
What is the restriction on the number of processes that can execute a receive operation at a time?
Only one process at a time is allowed to execute a receive operation.
Who selects the receiver in a message passing system?
The system selects the receiver arbitrarily.
Is the sender notified of the receiver in a message passing system?
Yes, the sender is notified who the receiver was.
What are the two types of message passing operations?
Message passing may be either blocking or non-blocking.
What happens when a blocking send operation is used?
The sender is blocked until the message is received.
What happens when a blocking receive operation is used?
The receiver is blocked until a message is available.
What happens when a non-blocking send operation is used?
The sender sends the message and continues.
What are the possible results of a non-blocking receive operation?
The receiver receives either a valid message or a null message.
What is the combination of blocking send and blocking receive called?
If both send and receive are blocking, we have a rendezvous.
Learn about the process concept, process scheduling, operations on processes, and interprocess communication in shared-memory and message-passing systems. This quiz covers material from Lecture 03 of the C-CS316 Spring 2024 course at the Faculty of Computing and Information Sciences.
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