List management routines

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Detailed Description

Manage lists of objects in the rank indexes.

Functions
LISTITEM *	list_append (LIST *list, void *data)
	Append an item to a list.
LIST *	list_create (void)
	Create a new list.
void	list_destroy (LIST *list)
	Destroy a list.
void	list_shuffle (LIST *list)
	Shuffle a list.

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Function Documentation

LISTITEM * list_append	(	LIST *	list,
		void *	data
	)

Append an item to a list.

Returns:

a pointer to the LISTITEM created and appended, NULL on error, errno

• ENOMEM memory allocation failed

Parameters:

list	a pointer to the LIST structure to which the item it to be appended
data	a pointer to the data which the new LISTITEM will contain

Definition at line 83 of file list.c.

Referenced by index_insert().

LIST * list_create

(

void

)

Create a new list.

Returns:

a pointer to the new LIST structure, NULL on error, errno

• ENOMEM memory allocation failed

Definition at line 51 of file list.c.

Referenced by index_insert().

void list_destroy

(

LIST *

list

)

Destroy a list.

Parameters:

list	a pointer to the LIST structure to destroy

Definition at line 67 of file list.c.