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--- faq [2013/11/01 16:46] – jxu
+++ faq [2013/12/02 19:56] (current) – jxu
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 ====== General ======
-====== FAQ about Assignment 2 and 3======
+====== FAQ about Assignments ======
 **Question 1**: We are planning to add a certain additional functionality X to our program for the Assignment. Is adding the additional functionality X allowed?
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 **Question 4**: For Assignment 2, are we allowed to make modifications to the main() procedure and the alarm_thread function?
-Answer to Question 4: You are allowed to modify the main() procedure and the alarm_thread in any way that meets the assignment requirements.
+Answer to Question 4:
+You are allowed to modify the main() procedure and the alarm_thread in any way that meets the assignment requirements.
 **Question 5**: For Assignment 2, are we allowed to NOT use the alarm_list?
-Answer to Question 5: In the assignment description, it clearly mentions "alarm_list" more than once, so clearly, using the "alarm_list" in the original "alarm_mutex.c" program is an important component of the assignment requirements. So the answer is that you MUST use the "alarm list" in your program "My_Alarm.c".
+Answer to Question 5:
+In the assignment description, it states that,
+***********************************************************
+"A3. You are required to make the following changes to the program
+"alarm_mutex.c" to produce a program named "My_Alarm.c".
+In your program "My_Alarm.c", after the alarm_thread has retrieved each
+alarm request from the alarm_list, instead of waiting for the specified
+number of n seconds and then printing out the alarm message as done in
+"alarm_mutex.c", the alarm_thread will immediately create a new thread,
+and that new thread will print out the alarm message repeatedly, once
+every n seconds; while the alarm_thread will be free to continue to
+retrieve and process new alarm requests from the alarm_list."
+**************************************************************
-**Question 6**: For Assignment 3, can I include the errors.h file that was used in Assignment 2?
+In the assignment description, it clearly mentions "alarm_list" more than once, so clearly, using the "alarm_list" in the original "alarm_mutex.c" program in the way that is specified in the assignment description above is an important component of the assignment requirements. So the answer is: in your program "My_Alarm.c", you MUST use the "alarm list" in the way that is specified in the assignment description above.
-Answer to Question 6: Yes.