Week 7

Dining UPC Philosophers

• Midterm Programming Assignment PDF
• Assigned: Wed, Oct 7
• Due: Fri, Oct 16, 11:59pm
  
  

Class exercise

• The Bear and the Honeybees (handout) PDF
  • split binary semaphores
    • where for binary semaphores s1 and s2:

        0 <= s1+s2 <= 1 

  • technique: pass the baton
    
    

Semaphores

• Ben-Ari Ch 6
  • slides: PDF
    • begin slide 105
      
      

Monitors

• Marc's Lecture Notes: PDF
  • Java example: Dining Java Philosophers
    • copy my example code:

      $ cp -r /home/mlsmith/cs377-examples/java-phils ./ 

• Ben-Ari Ch 7
  • slides: PDF
    • begin slide 146