If there is contention between readers and writers on an rw lock, which of them are given preference over the other?

Which of the following mechanisms enables solaris to support real time applications?

Is the glock necessary if a filesystem does not implement the mmap interface?

Is the thread allowed to perform any kind of blocking operation while holding a mutex?

Which of the following kernel subsystems employs a semaphore for synchronization?

What does the OS do when it detects a page fault on a valid address?

If there is contention between readers and writers on an rw lock, which of them are given preference over the other?

Which of the following kadb/adb commands prints the contents of the register set at a particular stack depth?