jacopo3101 / philosophers

First multithread project

Philosophers

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Introduction

The Philosophers Multithreading Project is an implementation of the classic dining philosophers problem using multithreading in the C programming language. The project explores the concepts of concurrency, thread management, and synchronization using mutexes.

Overview

The project simulates a scenario where a group of philosophers sit at a round table and alternates between eating, thinking, and sleeping. Each philosopher is represented as a thread, and they must share a fixed number of forks placed between them on the table. To prevent conflicts and ensure proper synchronization, mutexes are used to control access to the forks and prevent deadlocks.

Features

• Each philosopher is implemented as a separate thread.
• Mutexes are used to control access to shared resources such as forks.
• Proper synchronization techniques are employed to prevent deadlocks and race conditions.
• The program takes command-line arguments to specify the number of philosophers, time constraints for eating, sleeping, and thinking, and the optional number of times each philosopher must eat before the simulation ends.

Usage

To compile the program, use the provided Makefile:

make

To run the program, execute the compiled binary with the required command-line arguments:

./philo number_of_philosophers time_to_die time_to_eat time_to_sleep [number_of_times_each_philosopher_must_eat]