Producer consumer: Blocking

Use 3 mutex:

mutex = S(1)
notFull = S(K)
notEmpty = S(0)

We replace busy waiting here, with the notFull and notEmpty mutexes.

These will simply send a process to sleep, if the conditions do not hold:

  1. Producer: Buffer not full
  2. Consumer: Buffer not empty

so the process does not do busy waiting!

How do we continue on the process that when to sleep?

Recall that signal wakes up sleeping processes. This will cause the sleeping process to wake up.

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