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Semaphores are important when adding support for SMT in an OS kernel.


Likewise, nails are important when building a house, but you do not learn how to build a house by studying nails.


this is a terrible analogy. I learned implementing sempahores when building a kernel. It's absolutely required to learn, a necessary step to building the "house"




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