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On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:01:56AM -0700, Linus Torvalds 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..
> 
> This one definitely isn't a pthread-specific problem. The old UNIX fork()  
> semantics for <pid> returning really are fairly broken, since the notion
> of returning the pid in a local register is inherently racy for _anything_
> that wants to maintain a list of its children and needs to access the list 
> in the SIGCHLD handler.

The TLS setting makes it pretty pthread-specific, though (or at least
thread-specific).  Also the fn parameter makes it very different from
both clone and fork.  What about spawn() if you dislike a thread in the name?

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