A multithread simulation in C
The objective of this project is to create a multithread program that simulates a dinner where a 'philosopher' (thread) can eat only if he can get two forks (there is a fork for each philosopher). After eating, the philosopher should sleep then start to think and try to get two forks again. The simulation stops if a philosopher doesn't eat at a given time (time_to_die) or eat the maximum number of meals.
The project can be resumed in the following chart:
chart made by: Paulo Cunha
This project is part of 42 École/ 42 SP curriculum.
Topics such as parallelism, multithreading and mutexes were addressed.
A Linux OS and the gcc compiler are needed.
To compile the code, clone the repo, and run the following commands.
$ git clone https://github.com/filipebafica/philosophers.git
$ cd philosophers
$ make
This is going to generate an executable named philo.
Run the philo executable passing the arguments:
- number_of_philosophers
- time_to_die
- time_to_eat
- time_to_sleep
- [number_of_times_each_philosopher_must_eat]
$ ./philo 5 800 200 200 7
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