@encthenet@flyovercountry.social
Post #2238392
2026-04-30 19:42 UTC
@stiiin@infosec.space
Yeah, probably not a record of how they prevented them in the future, but the point is that it's had a history compared to the new coreutils.
The new product might be better or not. As with all new things, you get a new set of problems. Do you want an unknown set or a set that is decently known?
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@encthenet@flyovercountry.social 2026-04-30 19:46
@stiiin@infosec.space And unsurprisingly, all the bugs are logic bugs, but the other question is, when was the last time the cp or rm or mv had a segfault or memory safety bug? Those utilities aren't a major source of memory safety bugs. They're a source of logic bugs, and converting to rust doesn't magically fix logic bugs. Rewriting libjpeg or other file parsing libraries would be a more useful endeavor, less logic to get wrong, more likely to have memory safety issues in C.