How to find the current state of a thread in the scheduler strucure in windows.

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Published on 2010-01-07T17:35:15Z Indexed on 2010/03/31 18:13 UTC
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Hi all,

I want to know the current state(SUSPENDED/READY/RUNNING/WAITING state ) of a thread which has been created by CreateThread() api.

How can I find it out?

My developement environment is Visual studio 2008 Expresss edition

also language is C/C++

/renjith g

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