1. What is the difference between symmetric and asymmetric multiprocessing?

2. Pipes were one of the first Inter-process communication (IPC) mechanisms in the early UNIX system. Explain briefly about the pipes mechanism and its two models (ordinary, named). Does the pipe allow bidirectional communication, or is communication unidirectional? If two-way communication is allowed, is it half duplex (data can travel only one way at a time) or full duplex (data can travel in both directions at the same time)

3. Explain briefly about Sockets and Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) in client-server systems communication.

4. How many times does the following program print hello?

#include

#include

main()

{

int i;

for (i = 0; i < 3; i++)

fork();

printf("hello ");

}

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