Unix Interview Questions and Answers
Question: In what way the Fault Handlers and the Interrupt handlers are different?Answer: Fault handlers are also an interrupt handler with an exception that the interrupt handlers cannot sleep. Fault handlers sleep in the context of the process that caused the memory fault. The fault refers to the running process and no arbitrary processes are put to sleep. |
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