Re: what does __foo means.

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 06:54, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >    Can anyone tell me does double underscore before a function mean?
> >    In which scenario a programmer must use it.
> 
> From the POV of a compiler, _ is like [a-z]. The programmer may use it freely.

Yes, yes, but I don't think that was the question :).

In the kernel a function that begins with __ usually denotes an internal
function for that file or subsystem.  Not always, but usually.

josh

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