What is jQuery?jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript library primarily designed with a nice motto − Write less, do more. The main purpose of this library is to make it easier to use JavaScript on our website. jQuery simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for ... Read More

A remote procedure call is an interprocess communication technique that is used for client-server based applications. It is also known as a subroutine call or a function call.A client has a request message that the RPC translates and sends to the server. This request may be a procedure or a ... Read More

The producer consumer problem is a synchronization problem. There is a fixed size buffer and the producer produces items and enters them into the buffer. The consumer removes the items from the buffer and consumes them.A producer should not produce items into the buffer when the consumer is consuming an ... Read More

A deadlock happens in operating system when two or more processes need some resource to complete their execution that is held by the other process.A deadlock occurs if the four Coffman conditions hold true. But these conditions are not mutually exclusive. They are given as follows −Mutual ExclusionThere should be ... Read More

Multithreading allows the execution of multiple parts of a program at the same time. These parts are known as threads and are lightweight processes available within the process. Therefore, multithreading leads to maximum utilization of the CPU by multitasking.The main models for multithreading are one to one model, many to ... Read More

Message passing model and shared memory model are models of interprocess communication. Details about these are given as follows −Message Passing Process Communication ModelMessage passing model allows multiple processes to read and write data to the message queue without being connected to each other. Messages are stored on the queue ... Read More

Interprocess communication is the mechanism provided by the operating system that allows processes to communicate with each other. This communication could involve a process letting another process know that some event has occurred or transferring of data from one process to another.A diagram that illustrates interprocess communication is as follows ... Read More

Context Switching involves storing the context or state of a process so that it can be reloaded when required and execution can be resumed from the same point as earlier. This is a feature of a multitasking operating system and allows a single CPU to be shared by multiple processes.A ... Read More

Process Control Block is a data structure that contains information of the process related to it. The process control block is also known as a task control block, entry of the process table, etc.It is very important for process management as the data structuring for processes is done in terms ... Read More

Interprocess communication is the mechanism provided by the operating system that allows processes to communicate with each other. This communication could involve a process letting another process know that some event has occurred or the transferring of data from one process to another.A diagram that illustrates interprocess communication is as ... Read More