NAME¶

RtlpUnWaitCriticalSection (NTDLL.@)

SYNOPSIS¶

NTSTATUS RtlpUnWaitCriticalSection
(
RTL_CRITICAL_SECTION* crit
)

DESCRIPTION¶

Notifies other threads waiting on the busy critical section that it has become free.

PARAMS¶

crit [In/Out] Critical section.

RETURNS¶

Success: STATUS_SUCCESS. Failure: Any error returned by NtReleaseSemaphore(3w).

NOTES¶

Use RtlLeaveCriticalSection(3w) instead of this function as it is often much faster.

SEE¶

RtlInitializeCriticalSectionEx(), RtlInitializeCriticalSection(), RtlInitializeCriticalSectionAndSpinCount(3w), RtlDeleteCriticalSection(), RtlEnterCriticalSection(3w), RtlLeaveCriticalSection(), RtlTryEnterCriticalSection(3w)

IMPLEMENTATION¶

Declared in "winternl.h". Implemented in "dlls/ntdll/critsection.c". Debug channel "ntdll".