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Re:Bugs Rust Won't Catch by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @05:19AM (#47945942)
Thing is, these tools are so critical that even one error may cause systems to be compromised; rewriting them should never be taken lightly.

(Actually ideally there's formal verification tools that can accurately test for all of the issues found in this review / audit, like the very timing specific path changes, but that's a codebase on its own)

Re:Bugs Rust Won't Catch by bluGill on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @09:54AM (#47948522)
Is formal verification able to find most of these issues? I'm no expert on formal analysis, but I suspect most systems are not able to handle many of these errors. It seems more likely that the system will assume the file doesn't change between two syscalls - which seems to be the majority of issues. Modeling that possibility at least makes the formal system much harder to make.