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Dining philosophers problem

By Karunesh Johri • Updated: February 20, 2023

The dining philosophers problem is about deadlock in concurrent systems. The dining philosophers problem is explained with example programs.

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POSIX Threads Programming in C

By Karunesh Johri • Updated: February 20, 2023

1.0 POSIX threads A process is an execution environment in an operating system. A process has code and data segments which are initialized from a program during an exec system call. A process has a thread of execution, wherein instructions are executed as per the value of the program counter register. Associated with a process …

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