🍽️ Dining Philosophers Problem with Pthreads

📖 Overview

This repository contains an implementation of the classic Dining Philosophers Problem 🧠, using Pthreads and semaphores in C++. The problem showcases process synchronization, where five philosophers 🧑‍🎓 share limited resources (forks 🍴) to alternate between eating 🍝 and thinking 🤔. The solution ensures safe resource allocation and deadlock prevention 🔒.

This project was included until a few years ago as an example in the Operating Systems course at the University of Basilicata, led by Professor Domenico Daniele Bloisi 🏛️

✨ Features

• 🧩 Implements the dining philosophers problem
• 🧵 Thread management with Pthreads
• 🛡️ Synchronization using semaphores
• 📊 Displays philosopher status (thinking, eating, waiting)

🏗️ Project Structure

• dining-philosophers.cpp: Main source code for the project.

🚀 How to Run

1. Clone this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/atellaluca/dining-philosophers.git

2. Compile the program:

   g++ -o philosophers dining-philosophers.cpp -lpthread

3. Run the executable:

   ./philosophers
   

🏷️ Topics

• 🧠 dining-philosophers
• 🧵 pthreads
• 🔐 semaphores
• 🔄 synchronization
• ⚙️ multithreading
• 💻 cpp
• 🛠️ operating-systems
• 🧮 resource-management

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.