[fpc-pascal] Getting the state of a TRTLCriticalSection

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> 
>> Is there a preferred way of reading back whether something (including 
>> the current thread) has already entered a TCriticalSection?
> 
> To my knowlede this does not exist.
> 
> The Microsoft implementation of a critical section has 
> TryEnterCriticalSection, but I do not know how portable or useful that is.

I think that one's generally available, but it looks as though it does 
the same as TCriticalSection.TryEnter.

In the end I stuck in code to increment/decrement a counter, and looked 
for it to be explicitly 0 or 1.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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