Can the lock function be used to implement thread-safe enumeration?
- by Daniel
I'm working on a thread-safe collection that uses Dictionary as a backing store.
In C# you can do the following:
private IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<K, V>> Enumerate() {
if (_synchronize) {
lock (_locker) {
foreach (var entry in _dict)
yield return entry;
}
} else {
foreach…