Partial patch from SF #452266, by Jason Petrone.
This changes Pythread_start_thread() to return the thread ID, or -1
for an error. (It's technically an incompatible API change, but I
doubt anyone calls it.)
diff --git a/Python/thread_beos.h b/Python/thread_beos.h
index 046d37e..3f84347 100644
--- a/Python/thread_beos.h
+++ b/Python/thread_beos.h
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
static int32 thread_count = 0;
-int PyThread_start_new_thread( void (*func)(void *), void *arg )
+long PyThread_start_new_thread( void (*func)(void *), void *arg )
{
status_t success = 0;
thread_id tid;
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
success = resume_thread( tid );
}
- return ( success == B_NO_ERROR ? 1 : 0 );
+ return ( success == B_NO_ERROR ? tid : -1 );
}
long PyThread_get_thread_ident( void )