Re: static constructor and multithreading

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From: Marek (marek.stachowicz_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 05/08/04 

Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 09:42:31 GMT

Thank you Jon. It's more than clear now.
Marek

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <skeet@pobox.com> wrote in message
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> Marek <marek.stachowicz@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > I was not precise enough in the question 4. Of course, other resources
may
> > have to be protected against concurrent access. I meant that locking on
the
> > type class instance inside the static constructor does not make any
sense.
> > Is that correct?
>
> No - because as Nicholas said, other classes may be using the type for
> locking as well. The things that the static constructor does may need
> to execute separately from anything else which would lock on the type.
>
> > As far as I have understood your answer to the helper question, CLR
provides
> > some kind of protection against letting other static methods get started
> > before the static constructor ends its execution. Is that what you said?
>
> Yes, with some conditions. See section 9.5.3 of partition 1 of the ECMA
> spec for more details.
>
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