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Unsafe Rust: living up to its name (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 84 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It’s not. It’s literally code in an unsafe block. The OP is either trolling or actually ignorant.

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  • [+] [S] -26 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/races.html

    Safe Rust guarantees an absence of data races

    I know that it was unsafe block in this CVE, but the irony of the situation is funny.

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  • [–] 64 points 10 months ago

    Not only unironic but explained in the doc you referenced:

    “However Rust does not prevent general race conditions.

    This is mathematically impossible in situations where you do not control the scheduler, which is true for the normal OS environment.”

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