Re: Another locking question.

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From: Richard Blewett (richard_at_dotnetconsult.co.uk)
Date: 09/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 09:50:14 +0100

>From testing this out a while back:

if the other threads are of equal priority they appear to aquire the lock in
teh order they requested it (I haven't see this *documented* anywhere so I
wouldn't base my system on this behavior).

If Thread 3 has a higher priority than Thread 2 it will acquire the lock
first (at least this was the behavior I observed) irrespective of the order
the two threads attempted to acquire the lock - which is how it should be

Regards

Richard Blewett - DevelopMentor
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"Morten Wennevik" <MortenWennevik@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Cool Guy,
>
> I'm not entirely certain of this, but I think you have no way of knowing
> which of the waiting threads aquires the lock after it is released.
> Thread 2 and thread 3 have equal priority in aquiring the lock, and thread
> 3 might get the lock before thread 2.
>
> --
> Happy coding!
> Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]

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