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PRACTICAL – 8
Aim:
Write a program to implement reader/writer problem using
semaphore.

#include <iostream> #include

<pthread.h> #include
<semaphore.h>

using namespace std; sem_t

rw_mutex, mutex;int
read_count = 0; int data = 0;

void* reader(void* arg) {

int reader_id = *(int*)arg;

sem_wait(&mutex);
read_count++;
if (read_count == 1) {
sem_wait(&rw_mutex);
}
sem_post(&mutex);

cout << "Reader " << reader_id << " is reading data: " <<data << endl;

sem_wait(&mutex);
read_count--;
if (read_count == 0) {
sem_post(&rw_mutex);
}
sem_post(&mutex); int

usleep(1000000);

pthread_exit(NULL);
}

void* writer(void* arg) {

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int writer_id = *(int*)arg;

sem_wait(&rw_mutex);

data++;
cout << "Writer " << writer_id << " is writing data: " <<data << endl;

sem_post(&rw_mutex);int

usleep(1000000);

pthread_exit(NULL);
}

int main() {
const int NUM_READERS = 3;const
int NUM_WRITERS = 2;

pthread_t readers[NUM_READERS];
pthread_t writers[NUM_WRITERS];

sem_init(&rw_mutex, 0, 1);
sem_init(&mutex, 0, 1);

for (int i = 0; i < NUM_READERS; i++) {int* reader_id

= new int(i);
pthread_create(&readers[i], NULL, reader,
(void*)reader_id);
}

for (int i = 0; i < NUM_WRITERS; i++) {int* writer_id =

new int(i);
pthread_create(&writers[i], NULL, writer,
(void*)writer_id);
}

for (int i = 0; i < NUM_READERS; i++) {

pthread_join(readers[i], NULL);
}

for (int i = 0; i < NUM_WRITERS; i++) {

pthread_join(writers[i], NULL);
}

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sem_destroy(&rw_mutex);
sem_destroy(&mutex);

return 0;
}

OUTPUT:

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