Philosophers

In this project, I studied the basics of threading a process. How to create threads, how to work with mutexes.

This is taken from the subject.pdf.

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To run the simulation a few variables are needed:

1. number_of_philosophers: is the number of philosophers and also the number of forks.
2. time_to_die: is in milliseconds, if a philosopher doesn’t start eating ’time_to_die’milliseconds after starting their last meal or the beginning of the simulation,it dies.
3. time_to_eat: is in milliseconds and is the time it takes for a philosopher to eat. During that time they will need to keep the two forks.
4. time_to_sleep: is in milliseconds and is the time the philosopher will spend sleeping.
5. number_of_times_each_philosopher_must_eat: argument is optional, if all philosophers eat at least ’number_of_times_each_philosopher_must_eat’ the simulation will stop. If not specified, the simulation will stop only at the death of a philosopher.

Usage

To compile the programm run make all in the root of the project.
Then run ./philo with the parameters you want to test explained

i.e.: ./philo 4 410 200 200 4
Now the simulation will start and run until each philosopher has eaten 4 times or dies.

This ./philo 4 410 200 200 should theoretically run infinite.
If you want to see the usage while using you can do ./philo and it will show you the correct usage.