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authorJake Tesler <jake.tesler@gmail.com>2019-05-12 17:08:24 (GMT)
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bpo-36084: Add native thread ID to threading.Thread objects (GH-11993)
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@@ -85,6 +85,18 @@ This module defines the following constants and functions:
may be recycled when a thread exits and another thread is created.
+.. function:: get_native_id()
+
+ Return the native integral Thread ID of the current thread assigned by the kernel.
+ This is a non-negative integer.
+ Its value may be used to uniquely identify this particular thread system-wide
+ (until the thread terminates, after which the value may be recycled by the OS).
+
+ .. availability:: Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS.
+
+ .. versionadded:: 3.8
+
+
.. function:: stack_size([size])
Return the thread stack size used when creating new threads. The optional