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Enable queuing on this thread pool and spawn `minThreads()` processing threads&period; Return 0 on success, and a non&hyphen;zero value otherwise&period; If `minThreads()` threads were not successfully started, all threads are stopped&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;bdlmt&lowbar;threadpool&period;h&gt;`

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int
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