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From: "David B. Stevens" <dsteven3@maine.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5] Single linked lists for Linux, overly complicated
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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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