The program was made on receiving the homework assignment for the course CS232 Operating Systems. The assignment was to use the knowledge of multi-threading using POSIX Threads API to use and implement a multi-threaded file processor. The goal was to develop a multi-threaded C program that processes a large dataset concurrently. Therefore, synchronization mechanisms would be needed to ensure thread safety and efficient resource utilization.
The accompanying Makefile has commands for compiling, and running both the single threaded, and multithreaded program.
To compile: make build
To run: make run <file> <Arguments>
The data folder contains the datasets, however, the large dataset couldn't be uploaded to Github due to its large size. The rest of the details can be seen in the accompanying report here