C Programming

The dining philosopher problem is a classic problem describing how various consumers who need multiple resources can be synchronized. There is one solution to the problem as described by Tanenbaum. Examine this source code to answer the following questions. Place your text responses in a word-processed document (.odt, .doc, .docx, .pdf):

a) How would you create an environment to run the five philosophers? (e.g. Could all five philosophers run in a single threaded process? Five separate processes? Other ways?) Provide a program or programs (which will run on absaroka not Minix) to actually build an environment to demonstrate running the solution.