With a traditional "hand-rolled" doubly-linked list, if you have a reference to a Node, you can traverse from that node to the end of the list easily. Just check for "pNext == NULL" to know when you're at the end. You don't need any reference to the owning "list container" object. However, I can't seem to accomplish the same with boost::intrusive::list. Traversal with an intrusive::list's iterator is done STL-style, and for that you need to compare to the container's ".end()" value. I am aware of the "s_iterator_to" function[1], which can statically get an iterator from a node, but there doesn't seem to be any way to statically get a usable ".end()" value to compare to. There is also "container_from_end_iterator"[2], which gives the container if you have "end()" available already — not quite what I want, but I guess shows that end() is intimately tied to the container. I also notice that if I have an iterator to the last element in a list, and I increment it (++iterator), no error is given. But if I try to dereference it, I get garbage data. Peeking into the implementation, from what I can tell, boost::intrusive::list is actually a circular list, with a special "root node" that the container owns, and which represents the "end". So, iterating beyond the end gives you that root node. I guess my questions are: (1) Is my analysis above correct? I feel I might have missed something wading through all the templates, and the docs I've found don't discuss these implementation details. (2) Is there any way to accomplish what I want? That is: iterating from an arbitrary node to the end of the list, *without* a reference to the owning container? (3) [aside] If the answer to the above is "no", does anyone know what the rationale is for this design choice? It seems odd that such a basic feature of a traditional hand-made intrusive list would be dropped if there were no benefit. Thanks -John [1] https://github.com/boostorg/intrusive/blob/f44b0102b4ee9acf7b0304b3f5b27dde0... [2] https://github.com/boostorg/intrusive/blob/f44b0102b4ee9acf7b0304b3f5b27dde0...