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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

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

[-] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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