7.11 Looking Forward

We’re now at about the midpoint in our progression through this book, having covered many of the vital building blocks of a Linux system. The discussion of logging and users on a Linux system has shown you how it’s possible to divide services and tasks into small, independent chunks that can still interact to a certain extent.

This chapter dealt almost exclusively with user space, and now we need to refine our view of user-space processes and the resources they consume. To do so, we’ll go back into the kernel in Chapter 8.