This would make a good Q for the Puzzles TA. The first link seemed cool enough (although none of the first three systems I checked would display the blue button).
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Browse All Topicsi am looking for a solution for dining philosopher solution.u know there are five philosopher and five chopsticks. they sit around a round table.if every one picks up right chopstich then it is a deadlock situation. how to get out of it????
i am asking for a SIMPLE ALGORITHM (not program) for this dining philosopher solution which will work in every case. in book/sites they proposed many solution but each of them have some drawbacks. so plz can anybody provide me simple ALGORITHM for this.(if u write explicitly that would be better for me).
thanks ....waiting for response
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by: brettmjohnsonPosted on 2003-10-14 at 08:00:30ID: 9547543
If you google "dining philosophers deadlock" numerous discussions including algorithms
s/archive/ beta/Dinin gPhilosoph ers/ cs402/note s/lecture8 .pdf
are returned. Here are a couple.
http://java.sun.com/applet
http://www.isi.edu/~faber/