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--- faq [2018/04/03 15:07] – jxu
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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**: We are start writing the code for assignment 2. One issue we found is the
+**Question 5**: Some members of my assignment group are doing less work / making less
-code you give us has the problem when user input as following:
+effort / contributing less. Is this a valid reason for not handing in the assignment before the due date?
-alarm> 10 hello
-alarm> 5 world
-alarm> (10) hello
-(5) world
-The message "world" will not be sent back before hello although the time is
-set before "hello". In the book, there is another version of alarm which
-used condition mechanism could solve this problem. Should we implement
-assignment 2 base on that code or just leave this problem and still use the
-code you gave us?
 Answer to Question 5:
-What do you mean by "Should we implement assignment 2 base on that code"?
-Assignment 2 never asked you to write assignment 2 "based on" ANY code.
-The sample code was only provided for the purpose of illustrating some of the concepts discussed in the book related to POSIX Threads.
-No one has ever said that the sample code should be used or can be used to satisfy the requirements of assignment 2.
-**Question 6**: Some members of my assignment group are doing less work / making less
-effort / contributing less. Is this a valid reason for not handing in the assignment before the due date?
-Answer to Question 6:
 Unfortunately a claim that some members of an assignment group
-are doing less work than some other members of the assignment
+are doing less work / making less
+effort / contributing less than some other members of the assignment
 group, is NOT a valid reason for not handing in
 an assignment on or before the assignment due date.
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 that assignment group would need to hand in the assignment
 on or before the assignment due date.
+**Question 6**: The other members of my assignment group are not responding to my attempts
+to contact them; some of them may have dropped the course. What should I do in this case?
+Answer to Question 6:
+In a situation where not all assignment group members are willing to work
+together to complete an assignment, the members who are willing to work to
+complete the assignment should go ahead and work to complete the assignment
+(even if in the whole group there is only one member who is
+willing to work to complete the assignment).