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Re:Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 aut... by kstrauser on Thursday October 23, 2025 @06:43PM (#45688341)
Eh. People have written replacements for glibc because they didn't like something or another about it, and that seems to me to be way more fraught with risk than coreutils.
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Re:Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 aut... by elcritch on Thursday October 23, 2025 @07:08PM (#45688615)
Folks also run into compatibility issues with musl as well. The biggest I recall was an issue with DNS breaking because musl didn’t implement some piece.
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Re:Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 aut... by kasabali on Friday October 24, 2025 @03:11AM (#45691765)
TBF DNS handling of glibc is crazy.
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Re:Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 aut... by username223 on Thursday October 23, 2025 @07:03PM (#45688559)
Fair enough. My gut sense is that C functions are simpler than shell commands, with a handful of parameters rather than a dozen or more flags, and this bug supports that -- they forgot to implement a flag in "date." But I haven't tried to do either, so I could be wrong.
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