The Dining Trumpet players

(aka Dining Philosophers - but I prefer trumpet players)
Designed by Dijkstra : used as a benchmark to test synchronisation primitives.

  
Figure 3: Dining Trumpet players)

Each needs two forks to eat - with alternate periods of eating and chatting.

• Aim : To pick up two forks (eat) and then put down the forks (talk) - and do so without getting stuck.
• Acquire left fork, then right fork - if everyone wants to eat simultaneously - we have deadlock!
• Some kind of time ordering - perhaps - is required