Assignment-3 (30pts)

Implement a locking scheme to protect a share file in your distributed system. While we use

processes on a single machine to emulate the distributed system and there are shared-memory

synchronization primitives available, you are required to implement one of the following

distributed locking schemes: decentralized, distributed locking or the token ring algorithm. When

a process acquires the lock, it simply opens the file, increments a counter in the file, and closes the

file. Assume that all processes keep requesting the lock until successfully acquiring the lock for a

predefined number of times.