Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo [LWN.net]

Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo

Posted Feb 11, 2021 21:50 UTC (Thu) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo by sthibaul
Parent article: Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo

Unfortunately, it's not the same for all POSIX platforms - just about every platform has extensions to POSIX that aren't the same as other platforms :-(

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Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo

Posted Feb 11, 2021 21:55 UTC (Thu) by sthibaul (✭ supporter ✭, #54477) [Link]

> Unfortunately, it's not the same for all POSIX platforms - just about every platform has extensions to POSIX that aren't the same as other platforms :-(

Sure there are some extensions, but that's not much compared to the common Posix API.

Porting rust to a system that provides the Posix interface should just be a matter of running a script that looks for the ABI of the Posix interface (even if only to record it in the source tree). Like perl has been doing for decades.