c - OK to copy a CRITICAL_SECTION?

Question

One can use a CRITICAL_SECTION variable to get mutual exclusion.

My question is: does CRITICAL_SECTION support copying? If I pass one by value to another thread, can I know for sure that mutual exclusion will work?

I wouldn't be surprised if the answer is "you cannot do that", but it'd be nice to have some sort of official confirmation. I wasn't able to find a statement either way in the documentation.

Answer 1

No. A CRITICAL_SECTION cannot be copied. MSDN states this explicitly:

A critical section object cannot be moved or copied.