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-rw-r--r--etc/NEWS3
-rw-r--r--lisp/emacs-lisp/thread.el2
-rw-r--r--test/src/thread-tests.el4
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index d536faaa2d6..1fe662ffffd 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -731,6 +731,9 @@ to signal the main thread, e.g., when they encounter an error.
Instead, error messages are just printed in the main thread.
---
+*** 'thread-alive-p' is now obsolete, use 'thread-live-p' instead.
+
+---
** thingatpt.el supports a new "thing" called 'uuid'.
A symbol 'uuid' can be passed to thing-at-point and it returns the
UUID at point.
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/thread.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/thread.el
index 02cf9b9e53f..5d7b90c26e9 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/thread.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/thread.el
@@ -38,5 +38,7 @@ An EVENT has the format
(err (cddr event)))
(message "Error %s: %S" thread err))))
+(make-obsolete 'thread-alive-p 'thread-live-p "27.1")
+
(provide 'thread)
;;; thread.el ends here
diff --git a/test/src/thread-tests.el b/test/src/thread-tests.el
index a87eb3e1591..109e71128ab 100644
--- a/test/src/thread-tests.el
+++ b/test/src/thread-tests.el
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
:tags '(:unstable)
(skip-unless (featurep 'threads))
(let ((thread (make-thread #'threads-call-error)))
- (while (thread-alive-p thread)
+ (while (thread-live-p thread)
(thread-yield))
(should-error (thread-join thread))))
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@
(erase-buffer))
(let ((thread
(make-thread #'(lambda () (thread-signal main-thread 'error nil)))))
- (while (thread-alive-p thread)
+ (while (thread-live-p thread)
(thread-yield))
(read-event nil nil 0.1)
;; No error has been raised, which is part of the test.