All of the instructions in a System function call in a user-program are executed in kernel-mode.

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a. All of the instructions in a System function call in a user-program are executed in kernel-mode.

  

b. A process immediately upon creation at t=0 creates 10 threads; each of the threads intends to sleep for 2sec and then execute code for 4sec. In the mean-time the process terminates after the thread creation task that lasts 1sec. It is possible that the wall-clock (outside clock) time of the execution of a thread will be more than 40sec.

 

c. The PCB of a process is stored in an individual process's memory in user-space.

 

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