On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 09:06:12AM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > There are a lot of occurrences of structures that have a field of type
> > pointer to the structure, often with the suggestive name "next". But at
> > least some of them have only a next field and no prev field.
>
> Which suggests that they're single-linked lists on purpose.
right, i was going to mention that. my original query related to
local implementations of linked lists that deserve to be replaced by
the in-kernel implementation, and that would normally apply only to
doubly-linked lists.
rday
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