How to verify if a static class is running/active

Question

Hi all,

 

The scenario is a multi-thread environment as below:

 

. a static class accessDLLlock has several internal methods.

. A static object _objectLocker is declared in the constructor.

. Each method in accessDLLLock executes a lock to _objectLocker  and then redirects the call to a method in a DLL that is non thread-safe (the reason for the lock)

.The next call to accessDLLLock   will add the request to the queue (FIFO) if the class is still locked; it will be answered only when the lock is released

 

QUESTION: how to know if accessDLLLock is running (or locked) before calling it?

 

Thank you for your time,

Paulo

Below part of the accessDLLLock code:

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namespace Myservice

{

public static class accessDllLock

{

//declares the static object to synchronize the lock with incoming calls

static readonly object _objectLocker = new object();

 

public static string function_1_to_lock (string arg_input)

{

lock (_objectLocker)

try

{ statements to call the method function_1 in a DLL non thread safe }

}

public static string function_2_to_lock (string arg_input)

{

lock (_objectLocker)

try

{ statements to call the method function_2 in a DLL non thread safe }

}

...

}