Challenge
Tackling concurrent programming through the classic dining philosophers problem: getting several threads that share resources (the forks) to coexist without deadlock or starvation, with precise timing.
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Philosophers: threads, mutex and concurrency in C
École 42 project, solving the dining philosophers problem in C: threads and mutex, managing concurrency and shared access, preventing starvation and precise timing control.
Impact
- Solving the dining philosophers problem with multithreading
- Synchronization through mutex and prevention of deadlock/starvation
- Precise timing control and death detection
What was done
A solution built with pthread: one thread per philosopher, mutex to protect the forks and the shared states, a life loop (eat / sleep / think) and precise time monitoring to detect death and avoid starvation.
Stack
The technologies used on this mission.
- C
- pthread (threads)
- Mutex
- Concurrence / synchronisation
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