[Python-Dev] pthreads question: typedef ??? pthread_t and hacky return statements (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim_one@email.msn.com
Fri, 18 Aug 2000 02:30:40 -0400

[Greg Stein]

... IOW, an x-plat TLS is going to be done at some point. If you need it now, then please do it now. That will help us immeasurably in the long run.

It appears that a correct thread.get_ident() for DEC threads needed it 6 years ago (or at least that would have been-- and remains --the most elegant way to solve it). Trent doesn't need it to fix Monterey, though -- his only problem there is that the Alpha hack doesn't work on his platform, due to the former's utter bogosity. From Trent's POV, I bet the one-liner workaround sounds more appealing.