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There’s a recent drama where the Rust folks asked some people to clarify some of the semantics of some of the filesystem APIs, and this request wasn’t taken wel
by steveklabnik 2y ago
There’s a recent drama where the Rust folks asked some people to clarify some of the semantics of some of the filesystem APIs, and this request wasn’t taken well. There’s been a bunch of hn threads about it.
- asne11 2y agolike which?
- steveklabnik 2y agoI apologize, I am on my phone, so rather than curating links, check out https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=rust%20linux&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu..., most of which are about this situation.
- xgstation 2y agonot sure if this is what the op referred but like this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41450347 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41450347 didn't find threads that regarding "clarify APIs semantics", but kernel docs are indeed not in a very good condition. Since C does not provide same level of soundness that Rust does, there are many hidden traps. asahi developer had a good discuss about this https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1829852697107055047.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1829852697107055047.html
- steveklabnik 2y agoThis overall situation is, yes. And the stuff from Lina is related, thanks for also pointing that out.