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authorGregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com>2010-02-28 18:57:46 (GMT)
committerGregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com>2010-02-28 18:57:46 (GMT)
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Merged revisions 78517 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r78517 | gregory.p.smith | 2010-02-28 10:36:09 -0800 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010) | 3 lines Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate(). ........
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/threading.py b/Lib/threading.py
index 0e77060..7e513b8 100644
--- a/Lib/threading.py
+++ b/Lib/threading.py
@@ -465,7 +465,12 @@ class Thread(_Verbose):
self._note("%s.start(): starting thread", self)
with _active_limbo_lock:
_limbo[self] = self
- _start_new_thread(self._bootstrap, ())
+ try:
+ _start_new_thread(self._bootstrap, ())
+ except Exception:
+ with _active_limbo_lock:
+ del _limbo[self]
+ raise
self._started.wait()
def run(self):