Simple Threading question

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Am I right to assmune that setting a boolean varialbe is not inherently thread safe? This being the case is there a simple way for me to make it thread safe seeing as SyncLock will not work on a value type and Interlocked.Exchange() only works for Integfers and Single

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Am I right to assmune that setting a boolean varialbe is not
inherently thread safe?
Yes.

This being the case is there a simple way for
me to make it thread safe seeing as SyncLock will not work on a value
type and Interlocked.Exchange() only works for Integfers and Singles

The thing to do is create another variable (eg padlock) which *just*
serves as the lock:

object padlock = new object();

then:

lock (padlock)
{
// Do something with the boolean variable
}