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There are other methods in the ReentrantLock class that can be used to obtain information about a Lock object:

  • getHoldCount(): This returns the number of times the current thread has acquired the lock
  • isHeldByCurrentThread(): This returns a Boolean value indicating whether the lock is owned by the current thread

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