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_cthread.h b/Python/thread_cthread.h
index 0805051..8487cc2 100644
--- a/Python/thread_cthread.h
+++ b/Python/thread_cthread.h
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
/*
* Thread support.
*/
-int
+long
PyThread_start_new_thread(void (*func)(void *), void *arg)
{
int success = 0; /* init not needed when SOLARIS_THREADS and */
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
* so well do it here
*/
cthread_detach(cthread_fork((cthread_fn_t) func, arg));
- return success < 0 ? 0 : 1;
+ return success < 0 ? -1 : 0;
}
long