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

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