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Re:Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 aut... by kybernetyk on Friday October 24, 2025 @01:44AM (#45691200)
They weren't written in Rust. But I wonder why the borrow checker wouldn't catch the date bug...
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Re:Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 aut... by viraptor on Friday October 24, 2025 @05:41AM (#45692733)
> where date ignores the -r/--reference=file argument

This has nothing to do with memory ownership, so borrow checker is irrelevant. Ubuntu just shipped before that argument's handling was implemented.

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