COMP3000 Operating Systems W22: Tutorial 6

In this tutorial you will be learning about two implementations of the producer-consumer problem, a classic example of a concurrency problem. The class textbook covers concurrency in great detail in Chapters 25-34, and the producer-consumer problem is covered in Chapter 30 (Condition Variables) and Chapter 31 (Semaphores). While you can look at this part of the textbook, note that we will not be covering this material in the same level of detail, as should be clear from this tutorial.

Tutorials are graded based on participation and effort (so no need to try to have the “correct” answers — what matters is the process), but you should still turn in your work. Even if you have no idea about certain tasks or disagree about something, still make sure to document your confusions/opinions that reflect your thinking about that task. Submit your answers on Brightspace as a single text file named "<username>-comp3000-t6.txt" (where username is your MyCarletonOne username). The first four lines of this file should be "COMP 3000 Tutorial 6", your name, student number, and the date of submission.

The deadline is usually four days after the tutorial date (see the actual due date and time on the submission entry). Note that the submission entry is enforced by the system, so you may fail to get the effort marks even if it is one minute past the deadline.

You should also check in with your assigned TA online (by responding to the poll in the Teams channel tutorials-public or the private channel). Your TA will be your first point of contact when you have questions or encounter any issues during the tutorial session.

You get 1.5 marks for submitting answers that shows your effort and 0.5 for checking in, making this tutorial worth 2 points total.