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On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 04:26:52AM +0100, joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:
> Can you give an example of why this is needed? I can think of situations
> where you want to add a new hook at the end or the beginning of the
> current list, but no need to traverse the list backwards.

Shutdown hooks.  You want to unmount filesystems and unconfigure
vnd/cgd/etc devices and all the other similar things in reverse order
that they were configured.

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Dan.

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