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--- faq [2013/11/02 00:00] – jxu
+++ faq [2015/11/04 01:50] (current) – jxu
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 ====== General ======
-====== FAQ about Assignment 2 ======
+====== 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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 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 states that,
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-"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."
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-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.