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5:31pm Sun 30th Aug, Christopher M.

"Benjamin Lopas" <19*2*9*1@s*u*e*t*u*a*e*u*a*> wrote:

> And, as expected it prints "hello world" 4 times on seperate lines; However, > the solutions to the mid-semester test state that 'D' is the right answer. Which > says "The form of the output cannot be determined from the above code", is this > because a different operating system may give a different result, or is this > a typo in the solutions?

What actually happens depends on the interleaving/scheduling of the 4 running processes, whether they buffer their output (and maybe some external factors, but that would be too pedantic to ask about). In short, from the short bit of code, we can't tell what may happen.

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