Question

2. What is the meaning of the term busy waiting? What other kinds of waiting are there in an operating system? Can busy waiting be avoided altogether? Explain your answer.

Answer 1

Answer:

Busy waiting means that a process is waiting for a condition. to be satisfied in a tight loop without relinquishing the processor. Alternatively, a process could wait by relinquishing the processor, and block. on a condition and wait to be awakened at some appropriate time in.