Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Aug 2002 16:44:15 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [patch] clone_startup(), 2.5.31-A0 |
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On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 05:09:03PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > the attached patch implements a new syscall on x86, clone_startup(). > The parameters are: > > clone_startup(fn, child_stack, flags, tls_desc, pid_addr)
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..
> with the help of this syscall glibc's next-generation pthreads code
have you discussed this code with IBM's pthread group? I think we don't want to add a new syscall that is only useful to glibc..
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