How to check if a thread is hang

[cksiow]

I understand that we can use the function SendMessageTimeout to check if a window is hang. But how about a thread, that didn't call GetMessage ? Thanks.

[Marc from D]

One easy possibility could be to raise a counter in your thread and just check wheter the variable has changed in another part of your application. If not in a given time, your thread hangs.

Not nice, but should work.

Marc

[cksiow]

actually i am doing it now, but just wondering if there is any "System Function" that I can use to make the work ease.

[Marc G]

You want to check whether a thread without a window is still responding?
If so, there is no standard way of doing that i guess. If the thread responds to certain messages, you could try to send a message to it and wait for a response. However, if the thread is for example a workerthread and loops infinitely doing some work, I don't there isn't a way to detect if it's hung or not.

What exactly do you want to do?


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[humptydumpty]

As Marc from D specified just put a Timer and Check for Response.if you are not getting response in that much time means your thread is hangOut.then kill your Thread