Duplicate of Concurrency

Question 1

Threads, processes or data flows are given access to system resource

Accepted Answer

Scheduling

Question 2

Construct that provides equivalent functionality to that of semaphores and is easier to control

Accepted Answer

monitor

Question 3

When two or more threads access a common resource and the order of access depends on the timing

Accepted Answer

Race Conditions

Question 4

Mutual exclusion mechanism when a process executes in an infinite loop waiting for availability

Accepted Answer

spinlock

Question 5

What ensures critical sections of statements do not execute simultaneously?

Accepted Answer

Mutual Exclusion

Question 6

When a process is waiting indefinitely to enter its critical section

Accepted Answer

Starvation

Question 7

Processes waiting for a shared resource which is being held by a stalled process

Accepted Answer

Deadlock

Question 8

Semaphore that takes on only the values of 0 an 1

Accepted Answer

binary

Question 9

Allows cooperating processes to exchange information

Accepted Answer

Message passing

Question 10

A data structure used to control access to a common resource by multiple processes

Accepted Answer

Semaphore

Questions 10