Pretty sure this is not correct. The primary page table size is 2 8 256, where each of these 256 entries points to a secondary page table. Therefore there are 2 8 256 secondary page tables, one for each index of the primary page table. Each of these ...

I would've said that it's because every process calls exit(), either implicitly or explicitly. But I can see it being related to stdin out err too. Would have been nice to get the sample answers to the past exams, it's much more helpful when you can a...

ANONYMOUS wrote Thanks for the link. However, unless I'm misinterpreting it, that thread ended unresolved too. Dr. McDonald's only contribution in that thread was a non-answer (below) All the other messages seem to be speculation, where the same argu...

Making a new thread about this because I think it's worth getting to the bottom of the issue. Question 20 is either an unexplained trick question or a mistake in the sample answers. I'd like to explain why I think it is, or should be treated as, the l...

I'm not OP but I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for clarification given that cssubmit still says it's due yesterday. I submitted mine just now and it says it's late with a minus 5 penalty - I assume I won't actually lose 5 , but it's still a b...

This isn't a question but just something I find useful and hopefully others might also find useful, to get my head around the different uses of the operator in pointer syntax. While it seems like the expression p can take on a few diffe...