Patch #1454481: Make thread stack size runtime tunable.

Lib/test/test_thread.py

@@ -115,3 +115,38 @@ for i in range(numtasks):
     thread.start_new_thread(task2, (i,))
 done.acquire()
 print 'all tasks done'
+
+# not all platforms support changing thread stack size
+print '\n*** Changing thread stack size ***'
+if thread.stack_size() != 0:
+    raise ValueError, "initial stack_size not 0"
+
+thread.stack_size(0) 
+if thread.stack_size() != 0:
+    raise ValueError, "stack_size not reset to default"
+
+from os import name as os_name
+if os_name in ("nt", "os2", "posix"):
+
+    for tss, ok in ((4096, 0), (32768, 1), (0x400000, 1), (0, 1)):
+        if ok:
+            failed = lambda s, e: s != e
+            fail_msg = "stack_size(%d) failed - should succeed"
+        else:
+            failed = lambda s, e: s == e
+            fail_msg = "stack_size(%d) succeeded - should fail"
+        thread.stack_size(tss)
+        if failed(thread.stack_size(), tss):
+            raise ValueError, fail_msg % tss
+    
+    for tss in (32768, 0x400000):
+        print 'trying stack_size = %d' % tss
+        next_ident = 0
+        for i in range(numtasks):
+            newtask()
+
+        print 'waiting for all tasks to complete'
+        done.acquire()
+        print 'all tasks done'
+
+    thread.stack_size(0)