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Re:Rust in Linux Revisited by EE84M3i on Saturday August 31, 2024 @09:26AM (#41408728)
Safe rust cannot guarantee the lack of race conditions, only the lack of data races.
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Re:Rust in Linux Revisited by elihu on Sunday September 01, 2024 @07:07AM (#41415894)
A fair point. You could have two simultaneous code paths access the same hardware device, if such were not protected by a lock or some form of exclusive access to some associated data structure.
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