The dining philosopher problem is a classic problem in deadlock management. The problem can be described briefly as follows. There is a round table around which a total of five philosophers are sitting. There are also a total of five plates in front of the philosophers and five forks, one each beside each plate. A philosopher can only eat if s/he can get two forks lying beside the plate. The philosophers do not have any means of communicating with each other to control access to their forks. A situation where none of the philosophers is able to eat because they are all able to access a single fork (but not both) is called deadlock. The goal is to design a protocol of choosing the forks among the dining philosophers so that no deadlock occurs