哲学家进餐问题是荷兰学者Dijkstra 提出的经典问题之一,它是一个信号量机制问题的应用,在操作系统文化史上具有非常重要的地位。对该问题的剖析有助助于学生深刻地理解计算机系统中的资源共享、进程同步、死锁等问题,并能熟练地应用信号量来解决生活中的控制流程,即将生活中的控制流程用形式化的方式表达出来。

-The dining philosophers problem is one of the Dutch scholar Dijkstra' s classic, it is the application of a semaphore mechanism, a very important position in the cultural history of the operating system. The problems with the help help students deeply understand the resource-sharing computer systems, process synchronization, deadlocks and other issues, and proficiency in application of the semaphore to solve the control flow of life, the control process in the upcoming life formal mode of expression.