Hi,

I was looking the hlist's implementation in the linux kernel
(linux/include/linux/list.h). The description of hlist_node is:

struct hlist_node {
struct hlist_node *next, **pprev;
};

I don't understand why there is a pointer to a pointer (**pprev) for the
previous node instead of a simple pointer (*pprev). I quickly look the
general functions in list.h who use this structure and I don't see something
particular which can explain why we use a pointer to a pointer. Can someone
explain it to me?

Thanks

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