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_pth.h b/Python/thread_pth.h
index 6596b1a..71e0d04 100644
--- a/Python/thread_pth.h
+++ b/Python/thread_pth.h
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
*/
-int PyThread_start_new_thread(void (*func)(void *), void *arg)
+long PyThread_start_new_thread(void (*func)(void *), void *arg)
{
pth_t th;
dprintf(("PyThread_start_new_thread called\n"));
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
(void *)arg
);
- return th == NULL ? 0 : 1;
+ return th;
}
long PyThread_get_thread_ident(void)