Decrements a thread's suspend count.

DWORD ResumeThread(
    HANDLE hThread
);

DWORD RtResumeThread(
    HANDLE hThread
);

Parameters

hThread

Specifies a handle for the thread to resume.

Remarks

This function checks the subject thread's suspend count.

If the suspend count is zero, the thread does not suspend. Otherwise, the subject thread's suspend count decrements. If the resulting value is zero, the subject thread's execution resumes.

Return Values

Thread's previous suspend count

Success.

0xFFFFFFFF

Failure. For extended error information, see GetLastError.

Requirements

Notes

• In the iwin32 API, ResumeThread and RtResumeThread are synonyms.
• This function operates in the real-time portion of your application.

See Also

SuspendThread, iwin32 API, iwin32 Overview