Subj : Re: Improving read-write lock
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Holmes
Date : Thu Feb 24 2005 04:18 pm

"Joe Seigh" <jseigh_01@xemaps.com> wrote in message
news:opsmd8w7vwqm36vk@grunion...
> IIRC, Java exceptions don't unlock monitor locks.  Of course Java doesn't
use
> dtors for scoping since it has GC.
>

Java monitor locks are automatically unlocked when an exception propagates
out of a synchronized block or method. I think the C++ folk popularised this
peculiar notion with RAII for locking. :(

David Holmes

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