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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] clone_startup(), 2.5.31-A0
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 16:44:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020813164415.A11554@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208131650230.30647-100000@localhost.localdomain>; from mingo@elte.hu on Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 05:09:03PM +0200

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..

> with the help of this syscall glibc's next-generation pthreads code

have you discussed this code with IBM's pthread group?  I think we don't
want to add a new syscall that is only useful to glibc..


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-08-13 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-13 15:09 [patch] clone_startup(), 2.5.31-A0 Ingo Molnar
2002-08-13 15:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 15:44 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-08-13 16:01   ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 16:05     ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-13 16:20       ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 18:32         ` [patch] CLONE_SETTLS, CLONE_SETTID, 2.5.31-BK Ingo Molnar
2002-08-13 18:41           ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 19:09             ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-13 19:41               ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 19:41                 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-13 19:35             ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-15 22:38           ` [patch] complain about unknown CLONE_* flags Jamie Lokier
2002-08-16 10:17             ` Ingo Molnar
2001-11-02  5:55               ` Pavel Machek
2002-08-13 16:09   ` [patch] clone_startup(), 2.5.31-A0 Erik Andersen
2002-08-13 16:11     ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-13 16:32       ` David Mosberger
2002-08-13 16:44         ` John Levon
2002-08-13 19:52         ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-13 20:19           ` David Mosberger
2002-08-13 20:27             ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-13 20:52               ` David Mosberger
2002-08-13 20:57                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-13 16:56       ` Ruth Ivimey-Cook
2002-08-13 17:42       ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-13 17:19     ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-13 20:35       ` Kai Henningsen
2002-08-15 21:24         ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-13 17:27   ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-14 13:48     ` Rusty Russell
2002-08-14 18:47       ` Jamie Lokier

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