Issue #21362: concurrent.futures does not validate that max_workers is proper
diff --git a/Lib/concurrent/futures/thread.py b/Lib/concurrent/futures/thread.py
index f9beb0f..8d6081c 100644
--- a/Lib/concurrent/futures/thread.py
+++ b/Lib/concurrent/futures/thread.py
@@ -87,6 +87,9 @@
max_workers: The maximum number of threads that can be used to
execute the given calls.
"""
+ if max_workers <= 0:
+ raise ValueError("max_workers must be greater than 0")
+
self._max_workers = max_workers
self._work_queue = queue.Queue()
self._threads = set()