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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago

Can somebody explain why they are using libc in the first place?

[-] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 35 points 4 months ago

Because it's a rust implementation of coreutils, and not a rust implementation of coreutils and libc?

[-] db2@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago

But why is libc necessary in the first place? Are the functions not provided by the stdlib of rust?

[-] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

No, the Rust standard library only contains functions useful for standard Rust, not POSIX/Linux user-space -specific functionality from libc.

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