Most answered questions under tag os

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What is the difference between Linux and UNIX operating systems?

posted Jan 22, 2014 by anonymous

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.What is diference between monolithic kernel and micro kernel ?

posted Dec 10, 2013 by Mona Sharma

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what is the difference between mutex and binary semaphore ?

posted Sep 8, 2013 by Sony Mohanty

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OS: Does the stack always grow in upward direction or it is system dependent ?

posted Oct 1, 2016 by Vikram Singh

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What are the advantages and disadvantages of multiprogramming?

posted Jun 6, 2016 by Mike Kipngetich Bore

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HA: What five nines signify in the context of high availability ?

posted Feb 28, 2016 by Alok

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What is the difference between Bootloader and Boot Manager?

posted Feb 16, 2016 by anonymous

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What is thrashing in context of operating system?

posted Dec 8, 2015 by anonymous

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What is DMA i.e. direct memory access, please describe in detail?

posted Aug 1, 2015 by anonymous

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What is a Thread and how it is different from Process?

posted Jul 18, 2015 by anonymous

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What is Round Robin Scheduling for processes in an Operating System and why this is a preferred choice?

posted Jul 15, 2015 by anonymous

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What is Batch processing and what are its advantages and disadvantages?

posted Jul 13, 2015 by anonymous

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What is process synchronization ?

posted Dec 6, 2014 by Vikram Singh

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How NOS differ from any other OS ?

posted Oct 17, 2014 by Harshita

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Paging v/s Segmentation ?

posted Sep 19, 2014 by Harshita

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OS : How does "ls * > output.txt" work ?

posted Jul 23, 2014 by Harshita

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What is compaction in context of operating system?

posted May 31, 2014 by Amit Kumar Pandey

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What is priority inversion and What are the various methods to overcome it?

posted May 13, 2014 by Varun Kumar

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Installing Multiple Operating System in my PC?

posted Apr 30, 2014 by Aarati Mahajan

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What are message queues and pipes ?

posted Feb 2, 2014 by Anuj Yadav

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How to recover deleted files using python?

posted Dec 26, 2013 by Jagan Mishra

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What is the use of structure padding in C?

posted Nov 24, 2013 by sivanraj

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OS: What is the use of sticky bit?

posted Nov 12, 2013 by Ganesh Kumar

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What is the difference between elf and a.out ?

posted Nov 8, 2013 by Anuj Yadav

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WAP to check that system is 32 bit or 64 bit ?

posted Nov 8, 2013 by Anuj Yadav

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Is a + b atomic operation ??

posted Nov 6, 2013 by Vikas Upadhyay

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Why there is two part of data section (UnInitialized and Initialized) ??

posted Oct 1, 2013 by Vikas Upadhyay

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Can we change the inode table entries for a file in unix system ? If yes then how ?

posted Sep 30, 2013 by Vikram Singh

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Difference between synchronous and asynchronous interrupt ?

posted Sep 29, 2013 by Neeraj Mishra

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How can you change the priority of threads?

posted Sep 21, 2013 by Giri Prasad

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I heard like far, near, huge pointer ? what it has significance and when these can be used ?

posted Sep 20, 2013 by Ganesh Kumar

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Which is the fastest IPC mechanism and why ?

posted Sep 9, 2013 by Vikram Singh

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How RTOS differ from other general operating systems.

posted Sep 1, 2013 by Vimal Kumar Mishra

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Confused with 32/64 bit HW, OS and Binary, Listed few queries in description

posted Aug 3, 2018 by anonymous

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What are the necessary conditions for deadlock to happen and why?

posted Nov 2, 2017 by anonymous

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OS: What is priority Inversion and priority inheritance ?

posted Sep 22, 2016 by Vikram Singh

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How spooling removes the drawback of serial processing?

posted Jul 18, 2016 by anonymous

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Which is the best page replacement algorithm and Why? How much time is spent usually in each phases and why?

posted May 12, 2016 by Hasan Raza

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Open system call in linux

posted May 10, 2016 by Shivam Kumar Pandey

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What are the functionality performed by the OS after executable file is created of your code.

posted May 5, 2016 by anonymous

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What is starvation in context of multi-threading?

posted Apr 18, 2016 by anonymous

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OS: How does file descriptor duping works in linux operating system ?

posted Apr 11, 2016 by Vikram Singh

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What is the latency, transfer and seek time with respect to disk I/O?

posted Mar 31, 2016 by Jayshree

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OS: Difference between formatted piping and low level piping and when to use what ?

posted Feb 27, 2016 by Harshita

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What is cycle stealing in OS?

posted Jan 4, 2016 by Latha

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What is the concept of Reentrancy in context of operating system please explain in detail?

posted Jan 4, 2016 by Latha

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What are the various Coffman's conditions that can lead to a deadlock?

posted Jan 4, 2016 by Latha

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What all core difference between direct and Indirect Inter-Process Communication?

posted Dec 29, 2015 by Kali Mishra

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Linux is kernel or OS?

posted Dec 9, 2015 by Chirag Gangdev

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what is the difference between multicore and multiprocessor ?

posted Nov 11, 2015 by Michael N Hiwanapo