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How do you implement a bounded FIFO buffer in C-Linda? Assume the buffer contains integers (to make life a little easier). There are a number of producers and a number of consumer. Assume that the functions consume and produce have already been defined. Now consider the functions consumer and producer.

void consumer() 
{
   int data;
   while (1) 
   {
      data = get();
      consume(data);
   }
}
 
void producer() 
{
   int data;
   while (1) 
   {
      data = produce();
      put(data);
   }
}

A single consumer and producer can be created as follows.

void real_main() 
{
   eval("consumer", consumer());
   eval("producer", producer());
}

How can the above be extended to create multiple consumers and producers?

It remains to define the functions get and put.

int get()
{
   int data;
 
 
 
   return data;
}
 
void put(int data)
{
 
}

How should get and put be completed?