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This looks like such a fascinating project. I would love to contribute to this sort of low-level work, but frankly I don't know enough yet. I'm going to have to dig into that repo a bunch.

Anyone have any personal favorite books or articles that would be good for getting up to speed on this kind of thing?

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I recommend checking out this issue [1] if you want to get your feet wet. Attempting to build a new Rust program and documenting what prevented it from working is a great way to understand how everything is implemented. Pretty satisfying if you can get a program working, too.

[1] https://github.com/sunfishcode/mustang/issues/22

This is an excellent place to start. Thank you!

For this project, you'd want The Linux Programming Interface. Information here: https://man7.org/tlpi/

I have a copy I grabbed for an OS class. I should take that back out. Much appreciated!

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