Optimistically because the component was considered self-contained, and done? If you build things with wires, diodes, multiplexers, breakers, fuses and keyed c

Optimistically because the component was considered self-contained, and done? If you build things with wires, diodes, multiplexers, breakers, fuses and keyed connectors there's less maintenance needed than if you try and build a system entirely out of transistors and manually applied insulators. I haven't looked at the package itself, but was it built on top of the C libraries with like, bindgen? e: a glance suggests thats not the case, but perhaps they were ported naively by simply cloning the structure without looking at what it was implementing? that's definitely the path of least resistance for this type of thing. On top of that the spec itself is apparently in POSIX, some parts of which are, well, spotty; compared to RFCs