On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 16:49:20 -0500, Robert Love wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:29, Jan Hudec wrote: > > > Actualy it's the other way around. _ functions are usualy purely > > internal. __ functions are usualy "raw" variants. > > I don't know what you mean by "functions are usualy purely internal". > > By calling a function "internal", I mean it is not usually invoked > directly but by some other face. That is, its use is internal to some > other function. I suppose a synonym would be "helper" or "not intended > for direct use". But, of course, in the kernel there are no such hard > rules. So do I. By calling a function purely internal I mean it is never (not just not usualy) called directly. It should have been static, but for some reason it can't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
