Rust lacunae
Rust lacunae
Posted Jun 13, 2021 13:52 UTC (Sun) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988)In reply to: Rust lacunae by zlynx
Parent article: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
Well, nobody's safe from SIGTERM, but other than that the Rust devs go out of their way to make sure that panics unwind everything safely. There were major features held up just because they could not guarantee this.
I myself would be completely satisfied if mv did not clean up completely after it was killed by an unmaskable signal. After all, it seemed like this was the intent of the killer!