Thread primitives do not report the OS-level error on failure

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created_at = <Date 2018-01-07.15:50:08.335>
labels = ['3.7', '3.8', 'type-bug', 'library']
title = 'Thread primitives do not report the OS-level error on failure'
updated_at = <Date 2018-01-08.03:48:55.110>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/zwol'

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creation = <Date 2018-01-07.15:50:08.335>
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issue_num = 32511
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type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue32511'
versions = ['Python 2.7', 'Python 3.4', 'Python 3.5', 'Python 3.6', 'Python 3.7', 'Python 3.8']