[HN Gopher] "...Rust in the kernel is dependent on *kernel* rules"
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"...Rust in the kernel is dependent on *kernel* rules"
Author : belter
Score : 9 points
Date : 2022-11-25 21:49 UTC (1 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (lkml.org)
| AnimalMuppet wrote:
| Is this a rule that applies more generally than the kernel? "What
| you're trying to do is more important than the language you're
| trying to do it in", maybe?
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| I'm not quite happy with the way I put that. If you have better
| wording, feel free to chime in.
| josephcsible wrote:
| I disagree with "Not completing the operation at all, is _not_
| really any better than getting the wrong answer. " Getting the
| wrong answer can lead to security vulnerabilities and subtle but
| pervasive data corruption.
| Smaug123 wrote:
| Previously discussed at
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33056077; to quote myself
| from that discussion:
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| > I think a much better email from the thread to link to would be
| the earlier https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/9/19/840, where Linus
| actually talks about some of the challenges of kernel programming
| and how they differ from user-space programming.
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