Re: [PATCH][2.5] Single linked lists for Linux, overly complicated

David B. Stevens (dsteven3@maine.rr.com)
Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:49:25 -0400


Rik,

I respectfully disagree, it is well known that systems are far more
stable when running on empty lists, routines like this get us there faster.

Cheers,
Dave

PS:Is it April in September?

Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Thunder from the hill wrote:
>
>
>>We don't know the parent structure. We shouldn't know it, since it takes
>>time. So I try to keep the address pointer stable instead of just
>>exchanging pointers.
>
>
> In the case of slist_del() you HAVE to know it.
>
> Think about removing a single entry from the middle of
> the list ... the entries before and after need to stay
> on the list.
>
> Rik

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