A customer was doing some testing and wanted to know if there was
a way to force a call to
CreateFile to hang,
so that they can test
their program's hang detection and recovery code.
You can ceate these scenarios with careful use of opportunistic locks
(also known as oplocks).
The sample program I wrote some time ago
can be used, for example, to cause a
CreateFile call requesting write access
to hang until the oplock is released.
To cause a
CreateFile call requesting read access
to hang until the oplock is released,
use
OPLOCK_;
this means that the oplock owner caching writes,
so nobody can read from the file until the cached writes are flushed out.