Unlike processor exceptions, interrupts are triggered by process executions.
False
Consider the memory hierarchy depicted in the figure.
-Registers
-cache
-main mem
-Electronic disk
(Above Volatile)
- magnetic disk
-optical disk
- mag tapes
The access times decrease as you traverse up t...
The access times decrease as you traverse up the memory (tapes-to-
registers) hierarchy.
✓ False
Q2
✓ Q2
The process control block (PCB) contains information about a process and is
used during context-switching between processes. The PCB for every process
is maintained in the cache.
✓ False
The reason that the child executes the instruction after fork() is that the child's
address-space is a bitwise identical copy of the parent, including the values
of the program counter.
✓ True
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