GATE CSE · 2017 · CS
Question 27: Operating System
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Question 27
CSMCQ2 marksNeeds review
A multithreaded program P executes with
number of threads and uses
number of locks for ensuring mutual exclusion while operating on shared memory locations. All locks in the program are non-reentrant, i.e., if a thread holds a lock
, then it cannot re-acquire lock
without releasing it. If a thread is unable to acquire a lock, it blocks until the lock becomes available. The minimum value of
and the minimum value of
together for which execution of P can result in a deadlock are:Your answerChoose one option.
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GATE CSE 2017 · Paper 1
Computer Science and Information Technology · Original paper archive
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- Computer Science and Information Technology
- Question type
- Multiple choice (MCQ)
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- 2 marks
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