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From: rpjday@crashcourse.ca (Robert P. J. Day)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Linked lists for userspace programs in Linux
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 04:13:42 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.11.1406160412340.1106@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <128275.1402889057@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

On Sun, 15 Jun 2014, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> Oh, by the way, keep in mind that the Linux kernel "linked list" is
> actually a circularly linked list - as a result, treating it as a
> normal linked list (particularly when checking for empty list or
> end-of-list) is likely to result in hilarity and hijinks for all...

   once upon a time, i wrote a piece on how kernel linked lists work,
i think it's still accurate.

http://crashcourse.ca/introduction-linux-kernel-programming/intermission-lets-talk-about-linked-lists-and-containerof-free

rday

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-16  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-13 18:38 Linked lists for userspace programs in Linux Chandrasekaran Sivakumar
2014-06-16  3:24 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2014-06-16  8:13   ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2014-06-16 13:35   ` Chandrasekaran Sivakumar
2014-06-16 16:01     ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu

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