Comment by scoutt

Maybe offtopic, but I'm impressed by the rest of the conversation that generated that message from Linus: there is a whole thread in which Linus gets to explain with detail various locking mechanism in the kernel, pros and cons, etc.

I think we don't see this normally happening; situations in which the (technical) responsible for the Apple or MS kernels get to answer question and explain with such level of detail.

I think also that is even more interesting than the original blog post that originated that thread. Someone should harvest all these Linus comments and order them in some kind of "lectures" library.