Dinning Philosopher problem in Operating system concepts in C using mutex try locks and pthreads and without #Semaphores. full explanation of the program using editor. #OperatingSystem Concepts. #C, #Mutual exclusion, #Starvation. This is a deadlock free solution, no philosophers have to wait for the other philosopher to drop the fork and have to wait till death. #Linux #Ubuntu #OperatingSystem Concepts.