🍴 philosophers

I never thought philosophy would become so lethal

💡 About the project

In this project, you will learn the basic principles of threading a process. You will learn how to create threads and discover mutex.

For more detailed information, look at the subject of this project.

The function is written in C language and thus needs the gcc compiler and some standard C libraries to run.

1. Compiling

To compile, go to the project path and run:

$ make

To execute the program, run:

$ ./philo <number_of_philosophers> <time_to_die time_to_eat> <time_to_sleep> [number_of_times_each_philosopher_must_eat]

An example with 4 philosophers, 410 ms to die, 200 ms to eat and 200 ms to sleep:

$ ./philo 4 410 200 200

In this case no one dies, but if we put 310 ms to die instead:

$ ./philo 4 310 200 200

There will be a moment where one of them will die because the time elapsed since the last meal exceeded the time to die.