G52CON 2008-2009: Exercise 3, Monitors

Questions:

  1. A savings account is shared by several people. Each person may deposit or withdraw money from the account. The current balance in the account is the sum of all deposits to date less the sum of all withdrawals to date. The balance must never become negative. Account holders are represented as processes. A process making a deposit never has to delay (except for mutual exclusion), but a withdrawal has to wait until there are sufficient funds.

    Develop a monitor to solve this problem. The monitor should have two procedures: deposit(amount) and withdraw(amount). Assume the arguments to deposit and withdraw are positive, and the monitor uses Signal and Continue.