Re: [patch] clone_startup(), 2.5.31-A0
Erik Andersen (andersen@codepoet.org)
Tue, 13 Aug 2002 10:09:24 -0600
On Tue Aug 13, 2002 at 04:44:15PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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..
How about "clone2"?
-Erik
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