[PATCH] ntdll: Increase timeout in get_thread_context().

[Paul Gofman]

Hello Jacek,

On 4/12/21 21:45, Jacek Caban wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On 12.04.2021 20:39, Paul Gofman wrote:
>>      The hang happens when NtGetContextThread fails due to time out
>>      (after successful thread suspend). The timeout happens as the
>>      thread is busy in read() for regular file called from NtReadFile
>>      and does not process SIGUSR1 until read is complete. The read()
>>      may take a real long time when the disk is under heavy load.
>
>
> Maybe we should just get rid of the timeout, like we do in
> server_queue_process_apc. It made more sense when we were actively
> retrying to fetch the context.
>

I am not aware of the scenario when Windows can fail to get the thread
context after a timeout, if you are not aware as well I guess it would
indeed be better to remove it.