📝 Process Synchronization in Solaris

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🔄 Last updated: 2026-07-09

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Q1. Which synchronization mechanism in Solaris is specifically designed to protect critical data items accessed by short code segments?

🔹 A. Semaphore

🔹 B. Condition Variable

🔹 C. Adaptive Mutex

🔹 D. Reader-Writer Lock

💡 Difficulty: easy | ✅ Correct: C

Q2. On a multiprocessor system, what determines whether an adaptive mutex will spin or block when a lock is unavailable?

🔹 A. The number of CPUs available

🔹 B. The run state of the thread holding the lock

🔹 C. The priority of the waiting thread

🔹 D. The length of the code segment

💡 Difficulty: medium | ✅ Correct: B

Q3. How does Solaris optimize the association of turnstiles to synchronized objects?

🔹 A. Each object has a dedicated permanent turnstile

🔹 B. Turnstiles are associated with kernel threads, not objects

🔹 C. Turnstiles are shared globally across all locks

🔹 D. Turnstiles are allocated only for reader-writer locks

💡 Difficulty: hard | ✅ Correct: B

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