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This document describes a C program that solves the producer-consumer problem using semaphores and mutexes. It outlines the implementation details, including the creation of producer and consumer threads, synchronization mechanisms, and the main function that initializes and manages these threads. The program efficiently manages a shared buffer for producing and consuming items while ensuring thread safety.

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This document describes a C program that solves the producer-consumer problem using semaphores and mutexes. It outlines the implementation details, including the creation of producer and consumer threads, synchronization mechanisms, and the main function that initializes and manages these threads. The program efficiently manages a shared buffer for producing and consuming items while ensuring thread safety.

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B)This is a program in C that implements a solution to the producer-consumer problem using

semaphores and mutex. The program creates two threads, one for the producer and one for
the consumer, that access a shared buffer of fixed size (BUFFER_SIZE). The producer thread
generates random items and inserts them into the buffer, while the consumer thread removes
items from the buffer and consumes them.

Here are the step-by-step explanations for the code:

1. The program includes the necessary header files for working with threads, semaphores,
and standard input/output.

2. The program defines constants for the size of the buffer (BUFFER_SIZE) and the
number of items to be produced/consumed (NUM_ITEMS).

3. The program declares an array of integers (buffer) to represent the shared buffer, and
two integer variables (in and out) to keep track of the indices for inserting and removing
items from the buffer.

4. The program declares three synchronization objects: two semaphores (empty and full)
for keeping track of empty and full slots in the buffer, and a mutex (mutex) for
protecting access to the buffer.

5. The program defines a function called producer that will be executed in the producer
thread. The function uses a loop to generate random items and insert them into the
buffer. The sem_wait function is called on the empty semaphore to wait for an empty
slot in the buffer. The pthread_mutex_lock function is called on the mutex to acquire
the lock on the buffer. The producer inserts the item into the buffer, updates the in index,
prints a message to indicate the produced item, and releases the lock on the buffer using
the pthread_mutex_unlock function. Finally, the sem_post function is called on the full
semaphore to signal that a full slot is available in the buffer.

6. The program defines a function called consumer that will be executed in the consumer
thread. The function uses a loop to remove items from the buffer and consume them.
The sem_wait function is called on the full semaphore to wait for a full slot in the buffer.
The pthread_mutex_lock function is called on the mutex to acquire the lock on the
buffer. The consumer removes an item from the buffer, updates the out index, prints a
message to indicate the consumed item, and releases the lock on the buffer using the
pthread_mutex_unlock function. Finally, the sem_post function is called on the empty
semaphore to signal that an empty slot is available in the buffer.

7. The program defines the main function, which creates the producer and consumer
threads using the pthread_create function. The sem_init function is called to initialize
the semaphores with their initial values. The mutex is also initialized using the
pthread_mutex_init function. The pthread_join function is called on both threads to
wait for them to complete. Finally, the sem_destroy and pthread_mutex_destroy
functions are called to clean up the semaphores and mutex.

8. The main function returns 0 to indicate successful completion.

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