Philosophers

The classic Dining Philosophers problem in C.

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ℹ️ About Project

The purpose of this project is to learn the basics of threading and mutexes, while replicating the well-known Dining Philosophers problem.

For detailed info, refer to this project subject.

🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• GCC compiler
• Make utility
• Unix-like system (Linux, macOS, WSL)

Install prerequisites

• APT

  sudo apt install build-essential

• Pacman

  sudo pacman -Sy base-devel

🔧 Build

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/sdevsantiago/Philosophers.git
   cd Philosophers

2. Compile the project:

   make -C philo   # Compile mandatory only

3. Clean build files:

   make -C philo clean  # Remove object files
   make -C philo fclean # Remove all generated files
   make -C philo re     # Rebuild everything from scratch

👨‍💻 Usage

Basic Usage

./philo 10 410 200 200

📏 Norminette

The code strictly complies with 42's Norminette v4:

norminette *.c *.h

More info in the official Norminette repository.

🙇‍♂️ Special thanks

• lrcouto and ayogun for creating and publishing, respectively, the 42-project-badges repository.
• gcamerli for creating the 42unlicense repository.

⚖️ License

This work is published under the terms of 42 Unlicense. This means you are free to use, modify, and share this software.