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

[Christoph Hellwig]

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.