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Can you tell how much `unsafe` code you used? And if you did, for what purposes?

• codingbinary 12y ago
  Except for 2 exceptions, only for interfacing with xlib, as the calls to rust-xlib involve raw pointers (because rust-xlib is just a plain c-binding wrapper around xlib). The 2 exceptions are: loading of the config library. The config file is compiled to a dynamic lib at startup, and I need to read the symbol out of that library to access the configure function. The DynamicLibrary module is unfortunately unsafe. The second exception is in one of the default handler methods, managing the on-the-fly restart of the WM (akin to xmonad). This involves a call to execvp in the libc:: module, and therefore also unfortunately requiring an unsafe block (split into 2 unsafe block, for pointer handling and calling).