Porting Rust's Std to Rustix

Re:Porting Rust's Std to Rustix by Icathian on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @08:18AM (#29794364)

This looks like such a fascinating project. I would love to contribute to this sort of low-level work, but frankly I don't know enough yet. I'm going to have to dig into that repo a bunch.

Anyone have any personal favorite books or articles that would be good for getting up to speed on this kind of thing?

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Re:Porting Rust's Std to Rustix by antonok on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @11:16AM (#29796442)

I recommend checking out this issue [1] if you want to get your feet wet. Attempting to build a new Rust program and documenting what prevented it from working is a great way to understand how everything is implemented. Pretty satisfying if you can get a program working, too.

[1] https://github.com/sunfishcode/mustang/issues/22

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Re:Porting Rust's Std to Rustix by Icathian on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @04:17PM (#29800667)

This is an excellent place to start. Thank you!

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Re:Porting Rust's Std to Rustix by sanxiyn on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @08:37AM (#29794532)

For this project, you'd want The Linux Programming Interface. Information here: https://man7.org/tlpi/

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Re:Porting Rust's Std to Rustix by Icathian on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @04:18PM (#29800671)

I have a copy I grabbed for an OS class. I should take that back out. Much appreciated!

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