Chapter 11

1. False.
2. False. Timing trade-offs such as increased latency and lower determinism, along with less communication bandwidth, must also be taken into account before deciding a shared hardware peripheral is acceptable.
3. All of the above.
4. False. Stream buffers can be used by a single writer and a single reader. These writers and readers don't need to be the same task. If there are multiple writers or multiple readers, then a synchronization mechanism (such as a mutex) is required.
5. Mutexes.