Section 2: Managing and Controlling System Resources in Rust

This section covers how to interact with the kernel in Rust for managing memory, files, directories, permissions, terminal I/O, the process environment, process control and relationships, handling signals, inter-process communications, and multithreading. Example projects include a tool to compute Rust source file metrics, a text viewer, a custom shell, and a multithreaded version of the Rust source file metrics tool.

This section comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 5, Memory Management in Rust
• Chapter 6, Working with Files and Directories
• Chapter 7, Implementing Terminal I/O in Rust
• Chapter 8, Working with Processes and Signals
• Chapter 9, Managing Concurrency