yield returns within lock statement

Question

if i have a yield return in a lock statement does the lock get taken out on each yield (5 times in the example below) or only once for all the items in the list?

Tha

Answer 1

@Lockszmith has a good catch (+1). I only post this since I find his code hard to read. This is a "community wiki". Feel free to update.

object lockObj = new object();

Task.Factory.StartNew((_) =>
{
    System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Task1 started");
    var l1 = GetData(lockObj, new[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 }).ToList();
}, TaskContinuationOptions.LongRunning);

Task.Factory.StartNew((_) =>
{
    System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Task2 started");
    var l2 = GetData(lockObj, new[] { 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 }).ToList();
}, TaskContinuationOptions.LongRunning);

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public IEnumerable GetData(object lockObj, IEnumerable list)
{
    lock (lockObj)
    {
        foreach (T x in list)
        {
            System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Thread " + Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId + " returned "  + x );
            Thread.Sleep(1000);
            yield return x;
        }
    }
}