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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 20:25:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>
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To: Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>
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On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Peter Chubb wrote:

> This only works if head->next == entry otherwise you lose half your
> list.  Also, none of this is SMP-safe.
> 
> I think you need something like this (but with locking!)

Should you really be having locking in a primitive like that? That 
shouldn't be taken care of at that level.

	Zwane
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