Re: How to tell if thread owns critical section?

Hello all,

I have an app where I run a variable number of identical threads. In order
to use "try-throw-catch" error handling I have "wrapped" the WorkerBee
threads in the following function:

void WorkerBeeWrapper(LPVOID lpParam)
{
EnterCriticalSection(&cs);

try
{
 WorkerBee( MYWORKSPACE* lpParam );
}
catch(char* str)
{
 // process errors I define
}
catch( ... )
{
 // process other errors
}

// problem is here ...
LeaveCriticalSection(&cs);
}

The WorkerBee() function enters and exits the same critical section as it
does it's job. My problem is this: How to tell in the WorkerBeeWrapper()
function whether or not the ending thread owns the critical section. Because
there may be an error exit, I do not know. The TryEnterCriticalSection does
not help because I must exit the critical section as many times as I enter
it, so success means I must exit at least once and maybe two times. How to
tell? Same question.

I think I must hack the critical section structure

but my attempts thus far
have all crashed and burned. All docs I have found warn against messing with
the structure.

Any help, alternatives, clues, pointers to docs, etc. would be appreciated.