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SubjectRe: [patch] clone_startup(), 2.5.31-A0
mingo@elte.hu (Ingo Molnar)  wrote on 13.08.02 in <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208131918360.4369-100000@localhost.localdomain>:

> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, 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"?
>
> ni fact it was sys_clone2() first time around, but Ulrich Drepper
> requested another name for it because in glibc it collided with ia64 where
> clone2() is something different. So whatever name there is going to be, it
> should not be sys_clone2().

clone_and_start() or clone_and_go() or something along those lines,
perhaps?

MfG Kai
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