[guenthert]

Sure, particularly the first one is unacceptable and I'm sure, if Mr. Torvalds could remove all instances of those he would. I understand a bit the rage, reading a byte a time using system calls has been a well known anti-pattern for a looong time. His rant reads a bit like letting of steam in a semi-private conversation among like-minded peers, like a chat room of a BBS. Of course, when asked, Mr. Torvalds would have then known that the lkml is publicly accessible and archived and for the whole world to see for an indefinite time. However I wonder, whether he truly was aware of that, when writing such.