On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 22:31:39 +0200, Sir Eric Pouech scribed thus:
normally there's a message printed out when a critsect times out like: section 0x12345678 myCS wait timed out, retrying (60 sec) tid=xxxx and the tid gives you the thread id of the thread holding the cs then, you can use it for example in 'bt <tid>' to get a backtrace of that particular thread and look at what it's doing
Yup, sure, I know how to do that. But the backtrace tells you which thread blocked, and where it was when it blocked. It doesn't tell you which thread is already inside it (so you can go find out why it never left).
In the end yesterday I just stuck some trace statements in and used emacs to process the resulting huge file :) i feel there should be a better way though.... maybe having a linked list of RTL_CRITICAL_SECTION structs that the debugger can walk.