Re:Committing to Rust in the Kernel
by steveklabnik on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @10:07PM
(#41642982)
There’s a recent drama where the Rust folks asked some people to clarify some of the semantics of some of the filesystem APIs, and this request wasn’t taken well. There’s been a bunch of hn threads about it.
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like which?
not sure if this is what the op referred but like this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41450347
didn't find threads that regarding "clarify APIs semantics", but kernel docs are indeed not in a very good condition. Since C does not provide same level of soundness that Rust does, there are many hidden traps.
asahi developer had a good discuss about this https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1829852697107055047.html
Re:Committing to Rust in the Kernel
by steveklabnik on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @11:09PM
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This overall situation is, yes. And the stuff from Lina is related, thanks for also pointing that out.
Re:Committing to Rust in the Kernel
by steveklabnik on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @10:38PM
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I apologize, I am on my phone, so rather than curating links, check out https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu..., most of which are about this situation.