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Unsafe Rust: living up to its name (lemmy.nz)

submitted 8 months ago by janAkali@lemmy.sdf.org to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 months ago

Rust doesn't have a scheduler.
The issue is the false assumption, that the remove operation can safely be done without taking a lock. This can be done in some specific data structures using atomic operations, but here the solution was to just take the lock. The same thing could have happened in a C code base but without the unsafe block indicating where to look for the bug.