In this project will learn how to create threads and discover the mutexes.
This project is a training to multi-threads/multi-process programming with the use of mutex and semaphore.
It contains different programs simulating a twist of the famous Dining Philosophers problem, all with the same basic rules.
Rules:
• One or more philosophers sit at a round table.
• There is a large bowl of spaghetti in the middle of the table.
• The philosophers alternatively eat, think, or sleep.
• While they are eating, they are not thinking nor sleeping; while thinking, they are not eating nor sleeping; and, of course, while sleeping, they are not eating nor thinking.
• There are also forks on the table. There are as many forks as philosophers.
• Because serving and eating spaghetti with only one fork is very inconvenient, a philosopher takes their right and their left forks to eat, one in each hand.
• When a philosopher has finished eating, they put their forks back on the table and
start sleeping. Once awake, they start thinking again. The simulation stops when
a philosopher dies of starvation.
• Every philosopher needs to eat and should never starve.
• Philosophers don’t speak with each other.
• Philosophers don’t know if another philosopher is about to die.
• No need to say that philosophers should avoid dying!