Objective: Implemented a concurrent programming project to simulate a news broadcasting system. Explored synchronization mechanisms to manage multiple threads efficiently.

Key Components:

• Producers: Generated strings representing news stories of various types.
• Dispatcher: Sorted and distributed news stories to respective editors.
• Co-Editors: Edited received messages before forwarding to the screen manager.
• Screen Manager: Displayed edited news stories to the screen and managed final output.

Technical Details:

• Implemented a bounded buffer with thread-safe operations for inter-thread communication.
• Utilized synchronization constructs such as semaphores to manage access to shared resources.
• System configuration specified in a file format, allowing flexibility in defining producer tasks and queue sizes.

Note: Communication between threads handled via a shared bounded buffer. Global buffer declaration or passing buffer pointers during thread creation are suggested solutions.

Submission Command:

ex3.out config.txt