42-formation-lvl2-9.philosophers

Project 9: philosophers - Ninth project for the formation of software engineers at school 42 São Paulo.

• This project is about the basics of threading a process. How to create threads and use mutexes.

This project was like this:

Sumary

Necessary concepts

Some necessary concepts to develop this project.

• What is the processor?
• What is the core?
• What are threads?
• What are processes?
• Difference between processes and threads

Extern functions

We can use some extern functions. Follows a description of each of them.

• memset
• malloc
• free
• write
• usleep
• gettimeofday
• pthread_create
• pthread_join
• pthread_mutex_init
• pthread_mutex_lock
• pthread_mutex_unlock
• pthread_mutex_destroy

Useful links:

• Short introduction to threads (pthreads)
• Difference between processes and threads
• What is a mutex in C?
• Multithreading in C
• Mutex lock for Linux Thread Synchronization
• Dining Philosopher Problem - Simplified
• Dining Philosopher Problem Using Semaphores
• Dining Philosophers Problem with Solution

How the project works

• Dining philosophers problem
• How to test it
• Arguments

Project documentation

• main.c
• utils.c
• init_list.c
• thread.c
• philo_actions.c
• mutex_check.c
• death_check.c
• free.c