From: rpjday@crashcourse.ca (Robert P. J. Day)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: how it the linux implementation of double linked lists useful
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 16:53:50 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1508021653240.3096@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAGnT3ZDRg-3fBvM4s8BNd7MaWt8vMnDWiJKFH0bC-z+t5Z8dg@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 2 Aug 2015, Ahmed Soliman wrote:
> while reading through linux/list.h I noticed that the linked list
> structure is really simple with only pointer to the previous node and
> pointer to next node with no other data (It can't handle anything
> inside it ) I started to wonder how such linked list can be useful to
> the kernel or (useful in general) !
> thanks
i wrote a tutorial about that once:
http://www.crashcourse.ca/introduction-linux-kernel-programming/intermission-lets-talk-about-linked-lists-and-containerof-free
rday
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