

Because the goods are fragile, the tracks are perfectly leveled, which requires the placement of level crossings between warehouses. Each BAT is a mobile platform that travels on separate tracks back and forth between a warehouse and a truck.

In a heroic effort to meet increasingly tighter shipping deadlines, a company has employed a Bidirectional Autonomous Trolley (BAT) system to move products from its warehouses to the delivery trucks. Note: to link the Pthread library, use gcc option -lpthread as in gcc -Wall -o text text.c -lpthread Task 2 - The BATMAN You may declare the semaphores as global objects.

Your task is to add semaphores to this program to synchronize the threads. Second, the threads are not synchronized and therefore the text output is garbled. First of all, the threads do not have a chance to complete, because the main program terminates without waiting for them. There are a couple of problems with this program. Printf(" definition does not specify which process will be awakened.\n\n") The Signal(S) operation must waken one of the suspended processes. A semaphore must be given an non-negative initial value.\n\n") Printf(" decrement of S or the suspension of the calling process.\n\n") Printf(" instructions can be interleaved between the test that S>0 and the\n") Signal(S) and Wait(S) are atomic instructions. Printf("The semaphore has the following properties:\n\n") Printf(" The process is said to be suspended on the semaphore S.\n\n") #include /* defines _POSIX_THREADS if pthreads are available */įor (i = 0 i 0 then S:=S-1, else suspend the execution of this process.\n") * This program starts a number of processes that are synchronized with * Demonstrates semaphores to contol the synchronization of threads.

int pthread_join(pthread_t thread, void **value_ptr) Ĭonsider the following incomplete program:.int pthread_create(pthread_t *thread, const pthread_attr_t *attr, void *(*start_routine)(void *), void *arg).The POSIX thread library define in provides the following functions for pthread_t thread objects: int sem_getvalue(sem_t *sem, int *sval).int sem_init(sem_t *sem, int pshared, unsigned int value).
#COMPILING SEMAPHOR C MANUAL#
Consult the manual pages on a Linux machine to understand the following library functions: We will use these to synchronize a set of concurrent POSIX threads.Ī semaphore is an object of of type sem_t. Here we will focus solely on the POSIX semaphores on Linux. There are many non-portable semaphore implementations. Linux supports POSIX 1003.1b semaphores defined in. Task 1 - Using Semaphores to Synchronize Threads The stdin, stdout, and stderr streams are frequently used with these functions. You should consult the manual pages to understand these library functions.
