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"Dennis Jones" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message 
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> "Bob Gonder" <notbg@notmindspring.invalid> wrote in message 
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>> Dennis Jones wrote:
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>>>thread terminates.  So if it is not signalled, all I know is that it 
>>>hasn't
>>>terminated -- but I want to know whether or not the thread is in a wait
>>>state (waiting on a synchronization object).
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>> And for that part, I had suggested adding a thread-data flag that you
>> would set before and clear after going into wait-states.
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> Yeah, sorry...I guess I misread what you had said.  Unfortunately, I don't 
> have full control of all source code, so I won't always have the ability 
> to set state indicators.  Besides, that would be a lot of effort...it 
> would be much nicer to get that information from the OS, which probably 
> has it.

Thanks to a tip from someone in ms.public.win32.programmer.kernel, I found 
the 'State' and 'WaitReason' members in the SYSTEM_THREAD_INFORMATION 
structure provided by NtQuerySystemInformation(), which I am already 
calling!  Beauty!

I'm going to try it tomorrow.

- Dennis