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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:42:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [patch] clone_startup(), 2.5.31-A0
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On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> 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.
> 

fn_startup()

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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