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What happens if you break out of a Lock() statement?

Asked 2010-05-17T20:15:41.680
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I'm writing a program which listens to an incoming TcpClient and handles data when it arrives. The Listen() method is run on a separate thread within the component, so it needs to be threadsafe. If I break out of a do while loop while I'm within a lock() statement, will the lock be released? If not, how do I accomplish this?

Thanks!

(Any other advice on the subject of Asynchronous TCP Sockets is welcome as well.)

private void Listen()
{
    do
    {
        lock (_clientLock)
        {
            if (!_client.Connected) break;
            lock (_stateLock)
            {
                if (!_listening) break;
                if (_client.GetStream().DataAvailable) HandleData();
            }
        }
        Thread.Sleep(0);
    } while (true);
}
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Once you exit the lock{}, it will unlock what you have locked (it's just like a using statement in that regard). It doesn't matter where you exit (the beginning, the end, or the middle), it's that you left the scope of the lock at all. Think about what would happen if you raised an exception in the middle.

answered 2010-05-17T20:17:15.647

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