Quick Mutex Question

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dln

If I were to use the following call:

Mutex my_mutex = new Mutex();
bool got_lock = my_mutex.WaitOne(500, false);

and then got_lock returns false, do I need to call "my_mutex.ReleaseMutex()"
on it? So put another way, should I always call ReleaseMutex, regardless of
whether or not I got the lock?

Thanks.
 
dln said:
If I were to use the following call:

Mutex my_mutex = new Mutex();
bool got_lock = my_mutex.WaitOne(500, false);

and then got_lock returns false, do I need to call "my_mutex.ReleaseMutex()"
on it? So put another way, should I always call ReleaseMutex, regardless of
whether or not I got the lock?
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No - if you didn't acquire it, you shouldn't release it.
 
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