I am using a class that manages a pool of threads to run actions. Originally it was coded to take an Action (with no parameter) and I was calling it like this:
void LoadTasks()
{
string param;
// some code loops and changes param
{
threadPool.EnqueueTask(() => SomeMethod(param));
}
}
As the threads ran some were fine, but occasionally the param variable was not what I expected ... it was a "newer" value and not what I intended to send to the method.
Changing the thread pool to accept Action<Object>
and calling without a lambda -- like this threadPool.EnqueueTask(SomeMethod, param)
-- worked around my problem.
I see quite a few questions about C# lambdas about thread-safety. For example, an accepted answer of lambdas are much less likely to be thread safe than you would expect. I'm finding other questions and answers about lambdas/closures/scoping to be confusing. So I am looking for an explanation of lambdas and variable scope, ideally relating to the problem in my example.