Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by pjc50 on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @12:21PM (#11337646)

The rationale talks about easy portability to Windows, but I'm skeptical - the underlying API and filesystem is different enough that this is likely to cause problems. '\' vs '/' to start with.

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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by Someone1234 on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @12:28PM (#11337705)

Windows supports forward-slash fine. Has for at least 25 years. No need to change / to \ or visa versa.

Now obviously any Windows port would have to call Win32 APIs instead of POSIX APIs (unless you're writing for a Cygwin-like layer).

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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by 2Xheadpalm on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @12:56PM (#11337922)

Supported, just but it's a second class citizen, for example, no tab completion of directories on the cmd prompt when using forward slash. Some commands will not except it;

e.g. type c:\home\foo.txt -> cats it out type c:/home/foo.txt -> 'The syntax of this command is incorrect.'

whereas cd will except either forward or backslash

cd c:\home/foo cd c:/home/foo

work as expected.

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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by Someone1234 on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @01:18PM (#11338125)

Firstly I was talking about API support. Since that is the topic at hand.

Secondly, Cmd is deprecated. Powershell supports both slashes and "type c:/home/foo.txt" works perfectly.

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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by ktRolster on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @02:33PM (#11338777)

But Powershell redirects < and > either don't work or can corrupt your files

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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by Someone1234 on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @03:14PM (#11339177)

You might find this useful:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh847746.aspx

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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by ktRolster on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @09:27PM (#11341420)

A) That's only one direction, the other way doesn't work

B) Even going that direction, at times it corrupts the data

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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by pjmlp on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @01:16PM (#11338094)

Just use Powershell, it will work as expected.

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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by tacos on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @12:50PM (#11337854)

You might want to review the Xamarin bug reports as the slash alone nearly put them out of business at least three times.

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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by BuckRogers on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @12:53PM (#11337895)

I write a lot of single source Windows/OSX/Linux utilities and the nice thing about Windows is that back and forward slashes are interchangeable so you can just write for POSIX.

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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by keeperofdakeys on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @06:34PM (#11340473)

Most languages (including Rust), already support path libraries that abstract this away from you. As long as you use these libraries properly, you should never have these issues.

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