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diff Doc/lib/libthread.tex @ 20468:ebfd87e87884 legacy-trunk
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.)
| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> |
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| date | Tue, 16 Oct 2001 21:13:49 +0000 |
| parents | be3e0d197522 |
| children | bc02c3b09626 |
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--- a/Doc/lib/libthread.tex Tue Oct 16 20:42:52 2001 +0000 +++ b/Doc/lib/libthread.tex Tue Oct 16 21:13:49 2001 +0000 @@ -32,11 +32,10 @@ \end{datadesc} \begin{funcdesc}{start_new_thread}{function, args\optional{, kwargs}} -Start a new thread. The thread executes the function \var{function} -with the argument list \var{args} (which must be a tuple). The -optional \var{kwargs} argument specifies a dictionary of keyword -arguments. When the -function returns, the thread silently exits. When the function +Start a new thread and return its identifier. The thread executes the function +\var{function} with the argument list \var{args} (which must be a tuple). The +optional \var{kwargs} argument specifies a dictionary of keyword arguments. +When the function returns, the thread silently exits. When the function terminates with an unhandled exception, a stack trace is printed and then the thread exits (but other threads continue to run). \end{funcdesc}