The OP is talking about mucking about in the kernel. Even if that book did talk about kernel programming, Stevens has been dead for 15-20 years so the book would be horribly out of date.

The Rust session was proposed by Google engineer Nick Desaulniers, who works on compiling the Linux kernel with Clang and LLVM. Triplett is an advocate of using Rust for systems-level programming ...

The Google-backed project to make Rust a second programming language in Linux kernel development after C just took it's next big step. Key to the project is Spain-based developer Miguel Ojeda, who ...

Kernel devs have some strong feelings about that idea. To put it gently, none of the improvements in C++ are useful in the context of the kernel, and some of the other changes just get in the way.

PsSetLoadImageNotifyRoutine, is a mechanism that notifies registered drivers, from various parts in the kernel, when a PE image file has been loaded to virtual memory.

The Linux Foundation has released the 2011 edition of its kernel development study. The report provides insight into the status of Linux kernel programming and the level of developer participation.

The report, set to be released on Tuesday, states that the 2.6 Linux production kernel, shipped with software from Red Hat, Novell and other major Linux software vendors, contains 985 bugs in 5.7 ...

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The eBPF flavor of the C language is also a safer choice for kernel programming. All of these make it safer to add new functionality to the kernel than patching directly or using a kernel module.