Types of Error

What is an Error?

In simple terms, an error is an abnormal condition or scenario that basically occurs in the operating system or in the execution of any program or system that basically restricts the system from performing the desired or expected action. Now this action can be of any certain activity, or any certain action given to that system, like copying any file or deleting any certain data. So any restriction for this action, for performing these three side actions, is called an error The sources of these errors can be runtime errors, logical errors, system crashes, and many more. These errors basically lead to some false results, or they lead to some system vulnerabilities or system instability....

Types of Error

Below are the two types of errors that are seen in the context of the Operating System:...

What is Error Handling in OS?

Error handling in an operating system basically refers to the systematic process or systematic approach for Detecting, Managing, and properly responding to the errors that actually occurred by some failures, like Transient failures or permanent failures. Error handling in an operating system consists of some mechanisms or some solutions to handle these types of failures or exceptions or some unexpected scenarios. By ensuring that system can continue its operation or continue its desired action, although if any error is been occurred, the main aim of this error handling in the operating system is to basically handle the errors which have occurred in runtime or in compile time in an efficient and stable manner. Error handling consists of some of the strategies, like exception handling, error codes, and messages, retry mechanisms, Logging and debugging, etc. Using all these mechanisms, we can easily detect and manage the failures which are been occurred in the operating system....

What is the Need of Error Handling in OS?

Below are the reasons, why Error Handling is important in Operating Systems:...

Scenario: Operating System Error Handling in File I/O

In the below example, we will consider a scenario where a system user wants to read the file from the local disc drive using the operating system’s file input-output of functions. And in this example, we will cover both the transistor and permanent failure during the processes. Also, we will consider this response Operating system, and how the error handling is been done by the operating system....

FAQs on Error Handling

Q.1: How segmentation fault is handled by operating system?...