UWM CS537 Assignment 6 Revised Revised due to changes following Assignment 2 revision. Reading assignment: [R+89] “Mach: A System Software kernel” by R. Rashid, D. Julin, D. Orr, R. Sanzi, R....

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UWM CS537 Assignment 6 Revised Revised due to changes following Assignment 2 revision. Reading assignment: [R+89] “Mach: A System Software kernel” by R. Rashid, D. Julin, D. Orr, R. Sanzi, R. Baron, A. Forin, D. Golub, M. Jones. COMPCON ’89, February 1989. Although not the first project on microkernels per se, the Mach project at CMU was well-known and influential; it still lives today deep in the bowels of Mac OS X. Programming assignment: 1. Write a program that uses UNIX system calls to “ping-pong” a byte between two processes over a pair of pipes, one for each direction. Measure the program’s performance, in exchanges per second. 2. Answer Memory Allocation Question below