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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2001-10-16 21:13:49 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2001-10-16 21:13:49 (GMT)
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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.)
Diffstat (limited to 'Python/thread_pthread.h')
-rw-r--r--Python/thread_pthread.h8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Python/thread_pthread.h b/Python/thread_pthread.h
index 7170c8a..0fbafda 100644
--- a/Python/thread_pthread.h
+++ b/Python/thread_pthread.h
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ PyThread__init_thread(void)
*/
-int
+long
PyThread_start_new_thread(void (*func)(void *), void *arg)
{
pthread_t th;
@@ -210,7 +210,11 @@ PyThread_start_new_thread(void (*func)(void *), void *arg)
pthread_detach(th);
#endif
}
- return success != 0 ? 0 : 1;
+#if SIZEOF_PTHREAD_T <= SIZEOF_LONG
+ return (long) th;
+#else
+ return (long) *(long *) &th;
+#endif
}
/* XXX This implementation is considered (to quote Tim Peters) "inherently