Post #1971061

@AdrianVovk @zeenix @pid_eins ignoring the problems with and current limitations of the current Rust std APIs is bad, as it doesn't leave an open path to improve them. Ignoring the real limitations for why those APIs haven't yet been changed, given that Rust's std must support platforms that don't have the necessary primitives, doesn't help improve things either. There are crates that implement the desired APIs, supporting only Windows, modern Linux and macOS, and that's what most people should likely be using. A crate can also make the decision to support platforms on a best effort manner and "lie" about what the underlying platform supports (like the win9x Rust port does), but that is not suitable for the std.