dining-philosophers/README.md

# dining-philosophers

A commented example of solving the dining philosophers multithreading problem.


## Description of the dining philosophers problem.

The dinner philosophers problem consists of a round table where
N number of philosophers are seated, every philosopher has a fork
on each side that they are supposed to share with their neighbors
to eat a spaghetti that can only eated by the usage of two
forks.

The problem consists on achieving the table to be able to continuously
eat without getting stuck in a deadlock without the chance of philosophers to
talk between themselves.

## Description of the solution.

For the solution I inspired on the Dijkstra's solution but using the OOP nature
of C++ to make it more readable and near to the natural language.

The code is commented in its tricky parts in order to make the solution easier to understand.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_philosophers_problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_philosophers_problem)