Description
The System.Threading.Monitor class controls access to objects by granting a single thread a lock for an object. Object locks provide the ability to restrict access to a block of code, commonly called a critical section. While a thread owns the lock for an object no other thread can acquire the lock for the object. Additionally, the System.Threading.Monitor class can be used to ensure that no other thread may access a section of application code being executed by the lock owner, unless the other thread is executing the code using a different locked object.
The following information is maintained for each synchronized object:
A reference to the thread that currently holds the lock.
A reference to a “ready queue,” which contains the threads ...
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