diff Python/thread_os2.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 6f6f965c5e2d
children b1d9029e09d1
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--- a/Python/thread_os2.h	Tue Oct 16 20:42:52 2001 +0000
+++ b/Python/thread_os2.h	Tue Oct 16 21:13:49 2001 +0000
@@ -21,16 +21,16 @@
 /*
  * Thread support.
  */
-int
+long
 PyThread_start_new_thread(void (*func)(void *), void *arg)
 {
   int aThread;
-  int success = 1;
+  int success = 0;
 
   aThread = _beginthread(func,NULL,65536,arg);
 
   if( aThread == -1 ) {
-    success = 0;
+    success = -1;
     fprintf(stderr,"aThread failed == %d",aThread);
     dprintf(("_beginthread failed. return %ld\n", errno));
   }