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Post #1841245
2026-04-29 10:49 UTC
Those are bugs I dont think any programming language catch, unless it’s a DSL for writing such programs on Linux or another OS.
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@atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-29 12:14
Some of them seem to be harder to fix or to get right in Rust than C though. Mostly due to “convenience” methods that make application writing easier.
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@novafunc@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-04-29 12:10
It could be improved. Sebastian Wick and Lennart Poettering made comments on how hard POSIX makes it to be secure. There are better APIs that try to be safer, but still, those APIs are using POSIX too and can have issues. blog.sebastianwick.net/…/how-hard-is-it-to-open-a… mastodon.social/@pid_eins/116459585811044061 And since uutils is not Linux only, it can’t use these safer APIs directly, or at least not without writing more platform-specific code.