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The coreutils Rust rewrite story
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this post was submitted on 04 May 2026
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I doubt whether the original code even considered race conditions. That would have been left to script developers to figure out.
rust-core-utils is not completely compatible nor does it replace all functionality of core-utils. It's essentially useless for compliation or configuration scripts before we even discover all the bugs it probably has in it.
Memory safety is useless if the language is such a pig to program it's almost impossible to write bugfree code.
Are you saying that coreutil devs have been ignoring race conditions for the past 30 years? Because that would be an odd thing to be wrong about.