Lock aqcuired and further attempts to lock do not block: are C# locks re-entrant?

Question

I\'ve written a test of what I think should be a valid case for a deadlock. It appears that once the lock has been acquired by an instance of the a class, that

Answer 1

In your scenario, you have a lock within another lock. Once the code hits the nested lock in "Deadlock", the "lock(...)" code is essentially ignored because it has already acquired it in "TestLock".

Great source for threading: http://www.albahari.com/threading/part2.aspx.