This project is about learning the basics of threading a process.
You will see how to create threads and you will discover mutexes.

The problem was designed to illustrate the challenges of avoiding deadlock, a system state in which no progress is possible. To see that a proper solution to this problem is not obvious, consider a proposal in which each philosopher is instructed to behave as follows:

• think unless the left fork is available; when it is, pick it up;
• think unless the right fork is available; when it is, pick it up;
• when both forks are held, eat for a fixed amount of time;
• put the left fork down;
• put the right fork down;
• repeat from the beginning.

However, they each will think for an undetermined amount of time and may end up holding a left fork thinking, staring at the right side of the plate, unable to eat because there is no right fork, until they starve.