The Philosophers project introduces you to threading and mutexes through a simulation involving philosophers dining at a round table. You'll learn essential concepts of concurrency and synchronization in multi-threaded environments.
- Simulate philosophers dining and thinking with threads.
- Ensure no deadlock or starvation occurs using mutexes to manage forks.
- Log and display each philosopher's actions: eating, thinking, sleeping, and dying.
- Handle optional constraints like the maximum number of times a philosopher must eat before the simulation ends.
- Implement error-free handling and graceful termination of the simulation.
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Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/mbrettsc/philosophers.git && cd philosophers -
Build the project:
make
Run the simulation with the mandatory parameters:
./philo number_of_philosophers time_to_die time_to_eat time_to_sleep [number_of_times_each_philosopher_must_eat]
gcc(or any compatible C compiler)makebuild automation tool
Program name: philo
- Utilizes threads and mutexes to simulate philosophers dining.
- Ensures thread safety and proper synchronization.
Program name: philo_bonus
- Uses processes and semaphores for synchronization.
- Implements the simulation with the forks managed by semaphores in the center.