s1lent18/ice-cream-factory-problem

Ice-Cream-Factory-Problem

OPERATING SYSTEM PROJECT REPORT

Group Members:

• Ali Jafar
• Rafay Ahmad
• Ahmad Ali Ansari

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Requirements:

• COURSE: OPERATING SYSTEM
• OS: LINUX 6.5.1
• LANGUAGE: C

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Objectives:

• Create a system call to monitor thread activities

• Integrate the system call into the ice cream factory project

• Use synchronization to make sure threads function effectively

• Effectively Handle Deadlocks

• For Creating the system calls and configurating the kernal we followed the following link: [YOUTUBE LINK]: https://youtu.be/85qGRoaOkhQ?feature=shared

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System Calls: The Project Consist of 5 System Calls:

• Ice Cream Count
• Number of Flavors
• Out of Bounds
• Revenue
• Shop Closure

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• Ice Cream Count: Ice cream count system calls takes 4 arguments Prints the amount of flavors left at the end of the day
• Number of Flavors: Number of Flavors prints the prompt when there are no more flavors available.
• Out of Bounds: Check if the number of tickets provided by the user is within the set limits.
• Revenue: Prints all the Statistics of the day on closure i.e number of customers, total revenue etc
• Shop Closure: Indicates that the shop is now closed.

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Synchronization and Deadlocks: We Implemented Semaphores to counter deadlocks and Synchronize all the threads to avoid race condition problem.