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Re:Bugs Rust Won't Catch by dwattttt on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @05:48AM (#47946148)
I do wonder whether people got down the article enough to see the list of bugs patched in GNU coreutils.

That "perfectly good code" that it sounds like no one should question included "split --line-bytes has a user controlled heap buffer overflow".

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Re:Bugs Rust Won't Catch by gblargg on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @08:29AM (#47947414)
Yes, perfectly good code can have bugs. This is ridiculous thinking to scrap a codebase because it's not bug-free, to replace it with one riddled with differences in behavior that break everything that uses it.
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