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[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 36 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Because it's a rust implementation of coreutils, and not a rust implementation of coreutils and libc?

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[–] db2@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

But why is libc necessary in the first place? Are the functions not provided by the stdlib of rust?

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[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 24 points 2 months ago*

No, the Rust standard library only contains functions useful for standard Rust, not POSIX/Linux user-space -specific functionality from libc.

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