Basically the same as Thread::new. However, if class Thread is subclassed, then calling start in that subclass will not
invoke the subclass’s initialize method.
/*
* call-seq:
* Thread.start([args]*) {|args| block } => thread
* Thread.fork([args]*) {|args| block } => thread
*
* Basically the same as <code>Thread::new</code>. However, if class
* <code>Thread</code> is subclassed, then calling <code>start</code> in that
* subclass will not invoke the subclass's <code>initialize</code> method.
*/
static VALUE
rb_thread_start(klass, args)
VALUE klass, args;
{
if (!rb_block_given_p()) {
rb_raise(rb_eThreadError, "must be called with a block");
}
return rb_thread_start_0(rb_thread_yield, args, rb_thread_alloc(klass));
}