Philosophers

In this project, you will learn the basics of threading a process. You will see how to create threads and you will discover mutexes. read the subject for more infrmetion.

Program name	philosophers
Makefile	all, clean, fclean, re, bonus, rebonus
Arguments	[number_of_philosophers] [time_to_die] [time_to_eat] [time_to_sleep] [number_of_times_each_philosopher_must_eat]
External functs.	usleep, gettimeofday, pthread_create, pthread_detach, pthread_join, pthread_mutex_init, pthread_mutex_destroy, pthread_mutex_lock, pthread_mutex_unlock
Libft authorized	no
Description	Philosophers with threads and mutexes

Environment

• MacOS 11.4(Big Sur, Intel)

Developed and tested in this environment.

Compile

Mandatory

To compile the mandatory version, run the lines below.

$ git clone https://github.com/moelazhari/Philosophers.git
$ cd Philosophers
$ make

Bonus

To compile the bonus version,

$ git clone https://github.com/moelazhari/Philosophers.git
$ cd Philosophers
$ make bonus

Execute

Run compiled executable file.

Mandatory

$ cd philo
$ ./philo [number_of_philosophers] [time_to_die] [time_to_eat] [time_to_sleep] [number_of_times_each_philosopher_must_eat]

Bonus

$ cd philo_bonus
$ ./philo_bonus [number_of_philosophers] [time_to_die] [time_to_eat] [time_to_sleep] [number_of_times_each_philosopher_must_eat]