A system, method and computer readable medium containing programming structions for an improved latch mechanism for use in a programming environment running concurrent tasks is disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a latch is provided to a first task which is requesting access to a resource. After such access, the first task holds the latch, which is also released from the first task. The first task holding the latch marks the latch stealable, and if the latch is not marked stolen by another task, the first task can mark the latch unstealable. In another embodiment of the present invention, if the first task is provided a latch marked stealable, the resource associated with the stealable latch will be placed in a consistent state before the first task accesses the resource.

 
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