Subject: Re: rfork(2)
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/31/2002 17:51:50
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 08:48:58AM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 12:39:30PM +0300, Antti Kantee wrote:
>
> > Just a few nits I want clarification to:
> > First, clone() seems to be called __clone(). This probably has some
> > namespace implications, but I'm not 100% sure of what they are.
>
> __clone() is a perfectly fine name for the function, and also happens
> to match the Linux API (which was the intent).
The Linux (aka Linux Kernel) API is clone. __clone is a glibc API.