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Some other kinds of waiting in an operating system include waiting on applications, waiting on the user, and waiting for hardware to communicate. The operating system facilities many different components to work in sync.

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There are two general approaches to waiting in operating systems: firstly, a process/task can continuously check for the condition to be satisfied while consuming the processor.

Secondly, a process can wait without consuming the processor.

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