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lock guard

The value lock() returns; the lock stays held for as long as it exists.

A guard (MutexGuard, RwLockReadGuard, ...) derefs to the protected data and releases the lock in its Drop, so the critical section is the guard's scope.

See also

mutex drop read-write lock
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