[issue11618] Locks broken wrt timeouts on Windows

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> It appears that the thread_id field is never actually used
> -- is it there to help with debugging?  Perhaps it should just be
> removed.

True, I think we can remove it.

> does this mean that in Python 3.2
> threads are only supported with pthreads and win32?  If so you can
> get rid of all those other thread_*.h files.

Getting ridding them is scheduled for 3.3.

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