Operating Systems 161

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17.(25 points) Use a Monitor to Solve the Reader/Writer problem discussed in class. To restate the problem, a data object (e.g. a file) is to be shared among several concurrent processes. A writer process must have exclusive access to the data object. .Multiple reader processes may access the shared data simultaneously No reader kept waiting unless a writer has already obtained permission to write. Assume that the shared object is given as char Buf[100]