Re: Re: Discovering which critical sections threads are in

[Pouech Eric DMI AEI CAEN]

right, but looking inside the CRITICAL_SECTION which the thread blocked on, you can get the tid of the thread which holds the cs (OwningThread field IIRC).
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> Message du 12/06/03 10:31
> De : Mike Hearn 
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> Objet : Re: Discovering which critical sections threads are in
> 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.