On Sun, 15 Jun 2014, [email protected] 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 -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
