Philosophers 👴

A dining philosophers problem simulation

📖 About

Philosophers is a 42 project about threading and concurency. The objective is to simulate the dining philosophers problem in a program which lets you define how many philosophers are at the table as well as how long they sleep, eat and have to eat before dying.

✨ Features

• Multi-hreaded simulation - In the philo binary, each philosopher is a thread
• Multi-process simulation - In the philo_bonus binary, each philosopher is a process

🚀 Getting Started

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Compile from source

Prerequisites

• GCC compiler
• Make

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/ghostyghast/philosophers
cd philosophers/

2. Compile the project

make -C ./philo
make -C ./philo_bonus

🔮 Usage

You must define :

• how many philosophers are dining
• how long they can live before having a meal in ms
• how long they take to eat in ms
• how long they take to sleep in ms.
• (optionally) how many meals they have to eat before leaving the table

philo <number of philos> <life duration> <eat duration> <sleep duration> [meals to eat]

For a clearer understanding of a timeline of events, you can paste your output into this visualiser

📄 License

This project is part of the 42 School curriculum and follows the school's academic guidelines.