There is no CLONE_THREAD flag in creating a thread

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Hi,

The following code fragment is from the funciton named create_thread()
which included in glibc 2.11.2:

  int clone_flags = (CLONE_VM | CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | CLONE_SIGNAL
                     | CLONE_SETTLS | CLONE_PARENT_SETTID
                     | CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID | CLONE_SYSVSEM
#if __ASSUME_NO_CLONE_DETACHED == 0
                     | CLONE_DETACHED
#endif
                     | 0);

          int res = do_clone (pd, attr, clone_flags, start_thread,
                              STACK_VARIABLES_ARGS, 1);

This means that when creating a thread by do_clone(), it is
unnecessary to include the CLONE_THREAD flag in the clone_flags
variable. AFAIK, a thread is added into a thread group only if the
CLONE_THREAD flag is specified when creating it. So, I wonder why the
CLONE_THREAD flag is not speified in calling do_clone() and in which
circumstances this flag play its role.

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