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Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

Posted Jun 10, 2021 15:45 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust by epa
Parent article: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

> Rust and its standard library handle this kind of thing for you

That's not good in a system's language. You want to get the errors as they occur. Now, the stdlib can provide combinators to say "restart on EINTR" around these calls to abstract at least that away, but Sesse's point is that you can't just hide it away in all cases.

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Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

Posted Jun 11, 2021 20:09 UTC (Fri) by notriddle (subscriber, #130608) [Link]

That's what it does.

In the documentation for Write, it says that the regular write call can return Interrupted. The wrapper that automatically retries is called write_all.


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