[cs13001] Regarding project1 AOS

[Mikhail Nesterenko]

CSI students,

Please ignore the below message. It was meant to be sent to a list for
a different class.

Thanks,
--
Mikhail

Mikhail Nesterenko wrote:
> > Hello professor,
> > 
> > Can I implement the project using multiple threading where each thread will
> > work as a process?
> > 
> > Can I test my compile and run my project on departmental Unix server before
> > submitting?
> > 
> > As I have understood, we have to construct a computation (sequence of
> > execution of processes showing states of processes). is that correct?
> 
> 
> I prefer you not use threads, Unix processes or any other complicated
> programming constructs. Under no circumstances should you use any kind
> of actual message passing or interprocess communication.  In this case
> they are going to be a distraction rather than help.
> 
> What you are supposed to build is a simulation. Your program should
> produce a computation of a simulated system. The simulated system
> state should be encoded in a data structure. Your program should look
> at this global state, select an enabled guarded command and execute
> it. This produces a new global state. This process should repeat until
> no guarded command is enabled.
> 
> > 
> > Can you please tell me the highest value of N can be?
> 
> N could be arbitrary. A few thousands should be safe enough to assume
> but try to code your program so that it does not depend on a
> particular boundary of N.