CS 3733 Operating Systems, Fall 2010 Exam 2 Comments

Grade Distribution:
90-100: 3
80-89: 4
70-79: 5
60-69: 8
below 60: 1
Average: 74

• A process control block cannot control anything. It is just data.
• In the description of what a blocked signal is, there should be something that indicates that the blocking can be temporary.
• Only one student pointed out that in problem 2, I had:
     char buf1 = "XYZ";
  instead of
     char *buf1 = "XYZ";
• Problem 6 was the hardest one on the exam.
  It had 3 parts and you should give three different answers.
  If you think one answer is good enough for all three parts, you are wrong.
  Most people had trouble understanding what was meant by:
  
  Include in your discussion information about how the data is formatted,
  how the data is read and written,
  and how process C can tell when it has read all of the data.