Under what circumstances might a Windows Critical Section have a negative Lock Count?

Question

Is there any circumstance in which the LockCount field of a RTL_CRITICAL_SECTION structure in Windows can legitimately be negative?

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Answer 1

From here, is a part explanation:

LockCount This is the most important field in a critical section. It is initialized to a value of -1; a value of 0 or greater indicates that the critical section is held or owned. When it's not equal to -1, the OwningThread field (this field is incorrectly defined in WINNT.H—it should be a DWORD instead of a HANDLE) contains the thread ID that owns this critical section. The delta between this field and the value of (RecursionCount -1) indicates how many additional threads are waiting to acquire the critical section.