Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Kakinada 2010-5th Sem M.C.A Subject Code: MC406 Iester [R06] Regular &Supplementary s, Systems Programming - Question Paper

Time: three Hours

Max Marks: 60


ans any 5 ques. All ques. carry EQUAL marks



1. a) What is device driver? What is the role of device driver? discuss in detail.
b) explain in detail about version numbering.

2. a) discuss about char device registration in detail.
b) explain in detail about playing with new devices.


3. define about implementation of system calls in detail.

4. a) discuss paging under Linux .
b) define about lookaside caches and kmalloc in detail.

5. a) elaborate pitfalls in scull? explain about concurrency and its management.
b) provide options to locking in detail.


6. a) What is workqueue? explain in detail about this.
b) explain how to know current time and also for delaying execution.

7. a) discuss in detail about installing an interrupt handler.
b) discuss with an I/O port example for communication with hardware.

8 .a) define about interface specific kinds in Kernel.
b) explain about ioctl, blocking I/O operations in detail.

Earning:   Approval pending.