🍴 Dining-Philosophers

Implemented a solution of the famous Dining Philosophers problem and one of its modified version. It deals with concurrency and synchronisation issues which are dealt with using mutex as well as counting semaphores

❓ Problem Statement

Q1) The traditional dining philosopher problem: each philosopher needs the 2 forks to their left and right to eat their meal.
Q2) This version was modified: the table had 4 sauce bowls in the centre accesible to all the philosophers and 5 forks in the table as is usually done in this problem. The philosopher would need 1 fork and 1 sauce bowl to eat their meal. Note that in this part there is no deadlock.
Q3) This version was modified: the table had 4 bowls in the centre accesible to all the philosophers and 5 forks in the table as is usually done in this problem. The philosopher would need 2 forks to their left and right and 1 sauce bowl to eat their meal

🔢 Steps to run the code

1. Keep all files in the same directory.
2. Run the make command in the terminal.
3. Open the terminal and run either ./dp or ./dp3 according to your need
4. Run make clean to delete the output files and clean up.

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