"lock" keyword and exceptions

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Ron M. Newman

Hi. Quick question:

- I have a class with fields. There is one method that modifies them.

in this method I have something like

lock (this.lockObject)
{
/// throwing exception here...
}

My quetion is, if an exception is thrown within the lock block, will the
lock be released or will the object remain locked.

Ron
 
Ron said:
Hi. Quick question:

- I have a class with fields. There is one method that modifies them.

in this method I have something like

lock (this.lockObject)
{
/// throwing exception here...
}

My quetion is, if an exception is thrown within the lock block, will the
lock be released or will the object remain locked.

Ron
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Hi Ron,

The lock will be released. The lock keyword is a helper clause, that in
essence does this:

///
Monitor.Enter(<lock-object>);
try
{
...
}
finally
{
Monitor.Exit();
}
///

-- Tom Spink
 
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