Monitor

Monitor

The Monitor class exposes static methods to synchronize access to objects. The following static methods are commonly used to work with the Monitor class:

• Enter()

• Exit()

• Wait()

• Pulse()

• PulseAll()

Synchronization on an object means that an exclusive lock is acquired on an object by a thread that invokes Enter(). All other threads invoking Enter() get blocked till the first thread exits the monitor by invoking Exit(). As a consequence, the code block sandwiched between the enter and exit calls becomes a critical section with only one thread active in the block at any given time.

As an example consider the snippet below: