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UWA week 37 (2nd semester, week 7) ↓

Preprocessor Constants and Their Use (all 3)

5:00am Wed 13th Sep, Christopher M.

ANONYMOUS wrote:

> In the outline of code we were provided, there was a variable called MAX_RUNNING_PROCESSES. I used this variable for the sizes of ready, wait, sleep and blocked queues. I was wondering if this was correct of if I misinterpreted this value. > > What I thought it meant was the number of processes that have been spawned but not yet exited. Is this right?

Yes, that's the correct interpretation, and is intended to use as the maximum size of arrays and queues. In hindsight it should have been named MAX_CURRENTLY_LIVING_PROCESSES, or something(!), as, of course, only one process can only ever be running on the CPU.