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_os2.h b/Python/thread_os2.h
index 3f913c5..31800d6 100644
--- a/Python/thread_os2.h
+++ b/Python/thread_os2.h
@@ -21,16 +21,16 @@
/*
* Thread support.
*/
-int
+long
PyThread_start_new_thread(void (*func)(void *), void *arg)
{
int aThread;
- int success = 1;
+ int success = 0;
aThread = _beginthread(func,NULL,65536,arg);
if( aThread == -1 ) {
- success = 0;
+ success = -1;
fprintf(stderr,"aThread failed == %d",aThread);
dprintf(("_beginthread failed. return %ld\n", errno));
}