cs33211_os_assignment_1

producer-consumer problem

Sections

1. Overview

This project implements the Producer-Consumer problem with POSIX threads, shared memory, mutex locks, and conditions for both of the producer and consumer processes' critical section.

Files: <consumer.cpp> - Consumer process <producer.cpp> - Producer process <shared_buffer.h> - Shared memory

2. Libraries Used

- Basic I/0 operations - Standard queue data structure, FIFO and buffer management <pthread.h> - POSIX threading, pthread() functions, memory synchronization/execution <unistd.h> - POSIX operating system API, sleep()

3. Compile

1. g++ producer.cpp -o producer -pthread
2. g++ consumer.cpp -o consumer -pthread

4. Run

1. ./producer & ./consumer &

5. Cleanup

To kill all processes after running the program with ./producer & ./consumer & , run the UNIX terminal command: killall producer; killall consumer