On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 08:17, Shinpei Kato wrote: > How about types or variables and functions beggining with one "_" > as _exit()? Underscores tend to denote internal functions, or ones with a corresponding functions that are of a "higher level". There is not any official difference between one and two underscore proceeded functions, but I guess two underscore functions would tend to be "more internal" than one underscore functions. For example, consider foo() and __foo(). foo() might obtain requisite locks and then call __foo(). The standard interface would be foo(), but you could call __foo() if you knew you already held the locks or whatever. In the case of the _exit_*() functions, those are internal helper functions called by do_exit(). Robert Love -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
