how it the linux implementation of double linked lists useful

[Robert P. J. Day]

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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