Philosophers

I never thought philosophy would be so deadly

• Eat, Sleep, Spaghetti, repeat.
• This project is about learning how threads work by precisely timing a group of philosophers on when to pick up forks and eat spaghetti without dying from hunger.
• In this project, you will learn the basics of threading a process.
• You will see how to create threads and you will discover mutexes.

Examples

Compile

make

Execute

./philo philo_num die_ms eat_ms sleep_ms [must_eat]

• philo_num
  • The number of philosophers and also the number of forks.
• die_ms
  • time of life
  • If a philosopher didn’t start eating die_ms milliseconds since the beginning of their last meal or the beginning of the simulation, they die.
• eat_ms
  • time to eat
  • The time it takes for a philosopher to eat. During that time, they will need to hold two forks of left and right.
• sleep_ms
  • time to sleep
  • The time a philosopher will spend sleeping.
• must_eat
  • optional parameter
  • If all philosophers have eaten at least must_eat times, the simulation stops.
  • If not specified, the simulation stops when a philosopher dies.