Re: [patch] clone_startup(), 2.5.31-A0

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Date: Tue Aug 13 2002 - 11:11:38 EST

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On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 10:09:24AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > First the name souns horrible. What about spawn_thread or create_thread
> > instead? it's not our good old clone and not a lookalike, it's some
> > pthreadish monster..
>
> How about "clone2"?

Already used by ia64 for a hybrid between the good old clone and the new
monster :)

And as I said again, it doesn't really clone - it starts something
different, namely the fn argument.

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