GetThreadState

GetThreadState
Header:	Threads.h		Carbon status:	Supported

Obtains the state of a thread.

OSErr GetThreadState (
    ThreadID threadToGet, 
    ThreadState *threadState
);

threadToGet: The thread ID of the thread about which you want information.
threadState: On return, a pointer to the state of the thread specified by threadToGet.

function result: A result code.

DISCUSSION

A thread can be in one of three states: ready to execute (kThreadReadyState), stopped (kStoppedThreadState), or executing (kRunningThreadState).

To change the state of a specified thread, use SetThreadState.

AVAILABILITY

Supported in Carbon. Available in CarbonLib 1.0 and later when ThreadsLib 1.0 or later is installed. Exported by CarbonLib 1.0 and later and by ThreadsLib 1.0 and later.