#ifndef _NTPSAPI_H
//
// Threads
//
#if (PHNT_MODE != PHNT_MODE_KERNEL)
/**
* Resumes a thread that was previously suspended and sends an alert to it.
*
* @param ThreadHandle A handle to the thread to be resumed and alerted.
* @param PreviousSuspendCount An optional pointer to a variable that receives the thread's previous suspend count.
* @return NTSTATUS Successful or errant status.
*/
NTSYSCALLAPI
NTSTATUS
NTAPI
NtAlertResumeThread(
_In_ HANDLE ThreadHandle,
_Out_opt_ PULONG PreviousSuspendCount
);
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#ifndef _NTZWAPI_H
NTSYSCALLAPI
NTSTATUS
NTAPI
ZwAlertResumeThread(
_In_ HANDLE ThreadHandle,
_Out_opt_ PULONG PreviousSuspendCount
);
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Alerts and resumes the specified thread that previously entered an alertable wait and then was suspended. Once the suspension counter drops to zero, the thread wakes and returns STATUS_ALERTED
.
ThreadHandle
- a handle to a thread granting THREAD_SUSPEND_RESUME
access.PreviousSuspendCount
- an optional pointer to a variable that receives the previous value of the suspension counter of the thread.Despite the name similarity, this function is unrelated to NtAlertThreadByThreadId
.
This functionality is not exposed in Win32 API.