On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 09:41:34PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote: > * The leading underscores are often used for the more elaborate form of the > call (as oppposed to decorating the core function name with "_flags", for > example). IMHO usually the __ version of a public symbol means something like 'why are you using this? you probably should not' Often because the __ version has no locking or some other dangerous configuration like that. Jason