On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 07:22:18PM +0530, jelari wrote: > having looked up on kernel code, many places the structure name starts > with '__' [ underscore]. > Is there any reason behind it. The convention in C is that symbols starting with _ or __ are for internal use only. IIRC the C standard reserves __ symbols for use in the runtime libc library, but because the kernel doesn't use libc it's free to use them for other reserved use. Erik -- Erik Mouw -- mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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