cockmushroom@reddthat.com to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 1 month agoAn appropriate amount of work to slap an MIT license on somebody else's workreddthat.comimagemessage-square23linkfedilinkarrow-up167arrow-down138
arrow-up129arrow-down1imageAn appropriate amount of work to slap an MIT license on somebody else's workreddthat.comcockmushroom@reddthat.com to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 1 month agomessage-square23linkfedilink
minus-squareAnanace@lemmy.ananace.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up36·1 month agoBecause it’s a rust implementation of coreutils, and not a rust implementation of coreutils and libc?
minus-squareonlinepersona@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·1 month agoBut why is libc necessary in the first place? Are the functions not provided by the stdlib of rust?
minus-squareAnanace@lemmy.ananace.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·1 month agoNo, the Rust standard library only contains functions useful for standard Rust, not POSIX/Linux user-space -specific functionality from libc.
Because it’s a rust implementation of coreutils, and not a rust implementation of coreutils and libc?
But why is libc necessary in the first place? Are the functions not provided by the stdlib of rust?
No, the Rust standard library only contains functions useful for standard Rust, not POSIX/Linux user-space -specific functionality from libc.