diff Python/thread_pth.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 5aa8c5aaffad
children 8b116a8449bd
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--- a/Python/thread_pth.h	Tue Oct 16 20:42:52 2001 +0000
+++ b/Python/thread_pth.h	Tue Oct 16 21:13:49 2001 +0000
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
  */
 
 
-int PyThread_start_new_thread(void (*func)(void *), void *arg)
+long PyThread_start_new_thread(void (*func)(void *), void *arg)
 {
 	pth_t th;
 	dprintf(("PyThread_start_new_thread called\n"));
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 				 (void *)arg
 				 );
 
-	return th == NULL ? 0 : 1;
+	return th;
 }
 
 long PyThread_get_thread_ident(void)