[issue32511] Thread primitives do not report the OS-level error on failure

2018-01-07 Thread Nitish
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[issue32511] Thread primitives do not report the OS-level error on failure

2018-01-07 Thread Dryden Bouamalay
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[issue32511] Thread primitives do not report the OS-level error on failure

2018-01-07 Thread Zack Weinberg
New submission from Zack Weinberg : [_]thread.start_new_thread can fail if the underlying OS primitive fails (pthread_create / _beginthreadex), but the exception that is thrown when this happens is a generic RuntimeError (it's _called_ ThreadError in the source code, but it