The coreutils Rust rewrite story (infosec.exchange)

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[-] gnufuu@infosec.pub 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I doubt whether the original code even considered race conditions. That would have been left to script developers to figure out.

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.

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