Language (C#)
Concurrent access
When there are multiple threads that must access the same resource, it is mandatory to use a synchronization mechanism, otherwise we may loos data or leave the resource in an inconsistent state.
The lock statement
The simplest synchronization mechanism provided by the C# language is the lock statement.
lock (obj)
{
// do something
}But, what is there, under the hood of this lock statement? Is there something that is worth mentioning? Microsoft's documentation says that the Monitor class is used, under the hood, to obtain and release the lock. Is that true?
This C# Pill is targeting to answer the following question.
- Is the
lockstatement just a syntactic sugar for the usage ofMonitorclass?
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