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Date:      Wed, 02 Jan 2002 17:44:40 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man3 queue.3 
Message-ID:  <98230.1009989880@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Jan 2002 10:52:44 EST." <p05101000b858dc1a097e@[128.113.24.47]> 

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In message <p05101000b858dc1a097e@[128.113.24.47]>, Garance A Drosihn writes:

>>The man page should explicitly state that p is undefined after the loop
>>completes unless the user breaks out.  Oh, and explicitly stating that
>>it is OK to break out at all might be nice too. :-)

Agree and agree.

>Perhaps I am missing something, but this issue seems pretty simple to
>me.  What's wrong with:
>
>	keyp = NULL;
>	TAILQ_FOREACH(p, &list, p_next) {
>		if (some_test_on(p)) {
>			keyp = p;
>			break; /* optional */
>		}
>	}
>
>and then using 'keyp' outside the loop?

Again: agree.

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