C Sharp Programming/Keywords/lock

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The lock keyword allows a section of code to exclusively use a resource, a feature useful in multi-threaded applications. If a lock to the specified object is already held when a piece of code tries to lock the object, the code's thread is blocked until the object is available.

using System;
using System.Threading;
 
class LockDemo
{
    private static int number = 0;
    private static object lockObject = new object();
 
    private static void DoSomething()
    {
        while (true)
        {
            lock (lockObject)
            {
                int originalNumber = number;
 
                number += 1;
                Thread.Sleep((new Random()).Next(1000)); // sleep for a random amount of time
                number += 1;
                Thread.Sleep((new Random()).Next(1000)); // sleep again
 
                Console.Write("Expecting number to be " + (originalNumber + 2).ToString());
                Console.WriteLine(", and it is: " + number.ToString());
                // without the lock statement, the above would produce unexpected results, 
                // since the other thread may have added 2 to the number while we were sleeping.
            }
        }
    }
 
    public static void Main()
    {
        Thread t = new Thread(new ThreadStart(DoSomething));
 
        t.Start();
        DoSomething(); // at this point, two instances of DoSomething are running at the same time.
    }
}

The parameter to the lock statement must be an object reference, not a value type:

class LockDemo2
{
    private int number;
    private object obj = new object();
 
    public void DoSomething()
    {
        lock (this) // ok
        {
            ...
        }
 
        lock (number) // not ok, number is not a reference
        {
            ...
        }
 
        lock (obj) // ok, obj is a reference
        {
            ...
        }
    }
}



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