[ python-Bugs-1234979 ] Lock.acquire treats only 1 as True

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Bugs item #1234979, was opened at 2005-07-08 23:25
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Category: Threads
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Chris Perkins (cperkins)
>Assigned to: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Summary: Lock.acquire treats only 1 as True

Initial Comment:
Lock.acquire takes an argument indicating whether or
not to block.

On Windows, an argument of 1 (or True) is treated as
True, and any other number is treated as False.

The problem is in PyThread_acquire_lock, in thread_nt.h.

Although I haven't tried it on any other platform,
looking at a random sample (thread_pthread.h and
thread_solaris.h), it looks to me like other platforms
do it right.


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>Comment By: Reinhold Birkenfeld (birkenfeld)
Date: 2005-07-08 23:59

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Attaching a patch fixing that. Of course, the change is
slightly backwards-incompatible, so should we do that?

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