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Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

Posted Jun 16, 2021 5:03 UTC (Wed) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
In reply to: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust by nix
Parent article: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

Right, but they are not event driven. At least not in the classical implementation. Maybe with the Rust implementation it’s much more parallelized, there is cleanup work to do on being interrupted, and so you do need to explicitly check for system calls giving EINTR and do something other than just retrying. I still think Rust’s error handling mechanisms will make that cleaner than in C.


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Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

Posted Jun 16, 2021 14:46 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Oh, definitely. The need to wrap everything in either if statements or EINTR-checking while loops makes robust C unbelievably ugly compared to Rust of corresponding robustness, where you usually just need a trailing ?.


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