After the timeout of an RPC call to access a file on a hard-mounted file system the NFS client module does not return control to the user-level process that originated the call. Why?

What will be an ideal response?

Many Unix programs (tools and applications) are not designed to detect and recover form error conditions returned by file operations. It was considered preferable to avoid error conditions wherever possible, even at the cost of suspending programs indefinitely.

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In the statement Dim scores(30) As Double the number 30 designates which of the following?

(A) the highest value of the subscripts of the elements for the array scores (B) the maximum value that can be assigned to any element in the array scores (C) the data type for the array scores (D) the value initially assigned to each element in the array scores

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