• The link cannot have any messages waiting in ......................

Context switch time is pure overhead

in ................... the queue has finite length n; thus, at most n messages can reside in it

A ............. is an endpoint for communication

The context of a process is represented in its .....

Sockets identified by an............ concatenated with a ................

A *pair* of processes communicating employs a *pair* of sockets

A message-passing facility should provide at least one operations

The................. of a link can take several forms

The sender never blocks

in Remote Procedure Call The function is executed, and no output is returned

Allows a client to invoke a procedure on a remote host

OS execution is the Recording which process uses how much and what kinds of resources

The .... of the system from outsiders is also important

in Layered Approach Loosely-coupled as changes in one layer do affect the others

in Layered Approach Each layer uses the functions of only the lower-level layers.

means that if a process terminates, all of its children must be terminated as well

Reasons to support process cooperation

A RPC on the client-side hides the communication details