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_lwp.h b/Python/thread_lwp.h
index bf44e04..f6e6885 100644
--- a/Python/thread_lwp.h
+++ b/Python/thread_lwp.h
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
*/
-int PyThread_start_new_thread(void (*func)(void *), void *arg)
+long PyThread_start_new_thread(void (*func)(void *), void *arg)
{
thread_t tid;
int success;
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
if (!initialized)
PyThread_init_thread();
success = lwp_create(&tid, func, MINPRIO, 0, lwp_newstk(), 1, arg);
- return success < 0 ? 0 : 1;
+ return success < 0 ? -1 : 0;
}
long PyThread_get_thread_ident(void)