Philosophers 🍽

The goal of this project was to use mutexes.

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!

Usage

1. Clone repository
2. Move to directory

cd Philosophers/philo

3.Run make file

make

4. Run th program : example

./philo 1 800 200 200

Expected output:

has died

OR

./philo 5 800 200 200

Expected output:

Will not stop programm at all

OR

./philo 5 800 200 200 7 | grep ....

Expected output:

everyone need to eat 7 times