Linked lists for userspace programs in Linux

[Robert P. J. Day]

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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