The Linux Manuals (man pages) document is an important part of Linux documents. Linux Manuals are organized as several sections. Each section has a group of commands for a specific area in Linux usage, administration or development.
list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse – iterate backwards over list safe against removal Synopsis list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse(pos, n, head, member); Arguments pos the type * to use as a loop cursor. n another type * to use as temporary storage head the head for your list. member the name of the list_head within the struct. Description Iterate backwards over list of…
list_for_each_entry_safe_from – iterate over list from current point safe against removal Synopsis list_for_each_entry_safe_from(pos, n, head, member); Arguments pos the type * to use as a loop cursor. n another type * to use as temporary storage head the head for your list. member the name of the list_head within the struct. Description Iterate over list…
list_for_each_entry_safe_continue – continue list iteration safe against removal Synopsis list_for_each_entry_safe_continue(pos, n, head, member); Arguments pos the type * to use as a loop cursor. n another type * to use as temporary storage head the head for your list. member the name of the list_head within the struct. Description Iterate over list of given type,…
list_for_each_entry_safe – iterate over list of given type safe against removal of list entry Synopsis list_for_each_entry_safe(pos, n, head, member); Arguments pos the type * to use as a loop cursor. n another type * to use as temporary storage head the head for your list. member the name of the list_head within the struct. Copyright
list_for_each_entry_reverse – iterate backwards over list of given type. Synopsis list_for_each_entry_reverse(pos, head, member); Arguments pos the type * to use as a loop cursor. head the head for your list. member the name of the list_head within the struct. Copyright
list_for_each_entry_from – iterate over list of given type from the current point Synopsis list_for_each_entry_from(pos, head, member); Arguments pos the type * to use as a loop cursor. head the head for your list. member the name of the list_head within the struct. Description Iterate over list of given type, continuing from current position. Copyright
list_for_each_entry_continue_reverse – iterate backwards from the given point Synopsis list_for_each_entry_continue_reverse(pos, head, member); Arguments pos the type * to use as a loop cursor. head the head for your list. member the name of the list_head within the struct. Description Start to iterate over list of given type backwards, continuing after the current position. Copyright
list_for_each_entry_continue – continue iteration over list of given type Synopsis list_for_each_entry_continue(pos, head, member); Arguments pos the type * to use as a loop cursor. head the head for your list. member the name of the list_head within the struct. Description Continue to iterate over list of given type, continuing after the current position. Copyright
list_for_each_entry – iterate over list of given type Synopsis list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member); Arguments pos the type * to use as a loop cursor. head the head for your list. member the name of the list_head within the struct. Copyright
list_for_each – iterate over a list Synopsis list_for_each(pos, head); Arguments pos the struct list_head to use as a loop cursor. head the head for your list. Copyright
list_first_entry_or_null – get the first element from a list Synopsis list_first_entry_or_null(ptr, type, member); Arguments ptr the list head to take the element from. type the type of the struct this is embedded in. member the name of the list_head within the struct. Description Note that if the list is empty, it returns NULL. Copyright
list_first_entry – get the first element from a list Synopsis list_first_entry(ptr, type, member); Arguments ptr the list head to take the element from. type the type of the struct this is embedded in. member the name of the list_head within the struct. Description Note, that list is expected to be not empty. Copyright
list_entry – get the struct for this entry Synopsis list_entry(ptr, type, member); Arguments ptr the struct list_head pointer. type the type of the struct this is embedded in. member the name of the list_head within the struct. Copyright
list_empty_careful – tests whether a list is empty and not being modified Synopsis int list_empty_careful(const struct list_head *head); Arguments head the list to test Description tests whether a list is empty _and_ checks that no other CPU might be in the process of modifying either member (next or prev) Note using list_empty_careful without synchronization can…
list_empty – tests whether a list is empty Synopsis int list_empty(const struct list_head *head); Arguments head the list to test. Copyright
list_del_init – deletes entry from list and reinitialize it. Synopsis void list_del_init(struct list_head *entry); Arguments entry the element to delete from the list. Copyright
list_cut_position – cut a list into two Synopsis void list_cut_position(struct list_head *list, struct list_head *head, struct list_head *entry); Arguments list a new list to add all removed entries head a list with entries entry an entry within head, could be the head itself and if so we won’t cut the list Description This helper moves…
list_add_tail – add a new entry Synopsis void list_add_tail(struct list_head *new, struct list_head *head); Arguments new new entry to be added head list head to add it before Description Insert a new entry before the specified head. This is useful for implementing queues. Copyright
list_add – add a new entry Synopsis void list_add(struct list_head *new, struct list_head *head); Arguments new new entry to be added head list head to add it after Description Insert a new entry after the specified head. This is good for implementing stacks. Copyright
lease_get_mtime – get the last modified time of an inode Synopsis void lease_get_mtime(struct inode *inode, struct timespec *time); Arguments inode the inode time pointer to a timespec which will contain the last modified time Description This is to force NFS clients to flush their caches for files with exclusive leases. The justification is that if…