Patch #1454481: Make thread stack size runtime tunable.

Heavily revised, comprising revisions:
46640 - original trunk revision (backed out in r46655)
46647 - markup fix (backed out in r46655)
46692:46918 merged from branch aimacintyre-sf1454481

branch tested on buildbots (Windows buildbots had problems
not related to these changes).

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/dummy_thread.py b/Lib/dummy_thread.py
index 21fd03f27f..7c26f9e5ef 100644
--- a/Lib/dummy_thread.py
+++ b/Lib/dummy_thread.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ __all__ = ['error', 'start_new_thread', 'exit', 'get_ident', 'allocate_lock',
            'interrupt_main', 'LockType']
 
 import traceback as _traceback
+import warnings
 
 class error(Exception):
     """Dummy implementation of thread.error."""
@@ -75,6 +76,13 @@ def allocate_lock():
     """Dummy implementation of thread.allocate_lock()."""
     return LockType()
 
+def stack_size(size=None):
+    """Dummy implementation of thread.stack_size()."""
+    if size is not None:
+        msg = "setting thread stack size not supported on this platform"
+        warnings.warn(msg, RuntimeWarning)
+    return 0
+
 class LockType(object):
     """Class implementing dummy implementation of thread.LockType.