Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils by spider-mario on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @04:56AM (#49709669)

Sure, but mutual recursion might require `goto` for example. Or an explicit state machine.

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Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils by clhodapp on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @05:17AM (#49709822)

I can see how it might require an explicit state machine (keep a mutable state number and switch over the inlined bodies of what could be functions), but I'm not seeing how it could require `goto`.

Are there more-complex relationships that might require it?

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Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils by spider-mario on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @07:03AM (#49710609)

I meant it more in the sense that “you need one or the other” rather than “some cases require one and some other cases require the other”.

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