diff Python/thread_cthread.h @ 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>
date Tue, 16 Oct 2001 21:13:49 +0000
parents 5b4abceff53d
children 67da11293406
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--- a/Python/thread_cthread.h	Tue Oct 16 20:42:52 2001 +0000
+++ b/Python/thread_cthread.h	Tue Oct 16 21:13:49 2001 +0000
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 /*
  * Thread support.
  */
-int
+long
 PyThread_start_new_thread(void (*func)(void *), void *arg)
 {
 	int success = 0;	/* init not needed when SOLARIS_THREADS and */
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 	 * so well do it here
 	 */
 	cthread_detach(cthread_fork((cthread_fn_t) func, arg));
-	return success < 0 ? 0 : 1;
+	return success < 0 ? -1 : 0;
 }
 
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