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What does an invalid handle exception in LeaveCriticalSection mean?

December 11, 2006 Dec 11, 2006 12/11/06

Raymond Chen

Internally, a critical section is a bunch of counters and flags, and possibly an event. (Note that the internal structure of a critical section is subject to change at any time—in fact, it changed between Windows XP and Windows 2003. The information provided here is therefore intended for troubleshooting and debugging purposes...