Question

Another cross-language question: can someone tell me what C# Threading constructs best match the Java ReentrantLock and Condition classes? ReentrantLock has lockInterruptibly() and unlock() methods, while Condition has signal() and await() methods. It is this combination that I would like to be able to preserve in the C# code – or something similar… Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I think what you’re looking for is the static Monitor class. I allows for blocking and non-blocking mutex acquisition, as well as condition variable operations. (They call them Pulse, PulseAll and Wait rather than signal and await).