Read-many, Write-once lock

[Brian Muth]

Can someone point me in the direction of a Read-many, Write-once lock that can be used in managed code?

Brian

 

[Alberto Poblacion]

Can someone point me in the direction of a Read-many, Write-once lock that
can be used in managed code?

Take a look at the System.Threading.ReaderWriterLock class.

 

[Brian Muth]

Awesome. Thanks, Alberto. I couldn't see the needle for all the hay!

B

 

[Frans Bouma [C# MVP]]

Awesome. Thanks, Alberto. I couldn't see the needle for all the hay!

Do realize that the readerwriterlock is flawed in .NET 2.0. A new one,
also with flaws but less, will be released in v3.5

Please do a google search on readerwriterlock and you'll see the
problems. There are work arounds though, though these depend on your
situation: sometimes a spinlock is enough, other times you need a
simple monitor enter/exit.

FB

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