Solomon and Russinovich is good for OS concepts but not, I think, for
kernel programming. A good introduction to the latter would explore, for
example, concurrency, serialization, race conditions and such and would
lay out some solutions suitable for certain situations. I would argue
that Walter takes the approach that his reader does not require tuition
in the basics of kernel programming. Further, Walter's book is not what
I call simple. It gives good solutions, but some of these are for very
tough, advanced problems like cancellation. That sort of thing is a
fundamental problem, and it's not one for beginners.

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