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r78517 | gregory.p.smith | 2010-02-28 10:36:09 -0800 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010) | 3 lines
Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
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diff --git a/Lib/threading.py b/Lib/threading.py
index 0e77060..7e513b8 100644
--- a/Lib/threading.py
+++ b/Lib/threading.py
@@ -465,7 +465,12 @@
self._note("%s.start(): starting thread", self)
with _active_limbo_lock:
_limbo[self] = self
- _start_new_thread(self._bootstrap, ())
+ try:
+ _start_new_thread(self._bootstrap, ())
+ except Exception:
+ with _active_limbo_lock:
+ del _limbo[self]
+ raise
self._started.wait()
def run(self):