Philosopher dinner

Problem statement

5 philosophers are seated around a table, with food in from of them.

To eat, every philosopher needs two forks, the ones at her/his left and right sides.
Every philosopher alternates periods in which she/he medidates with periods in which she/he eats.

Modeling every philosopher as a different process or thread and the forks as resources, design a solution for the problem.

This is a possible solution for the dining-philosopher problem.

when a philosopher gets hungry, he/she first gets the left fork and then holds it while waits for the right one.

Let’s look at an implementations of this solution!

This solution may work some times, but in general suffers from race conditions.

Let’s look at a code snippet:

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