[kwlug-disc] Re-writes
Mikalai Birukou
mb at 3nsoft.com
Mon May 4 14:46:26 EDT 2026
> coreutils in rust, at Ubuntu (?)
> https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q2/332
>
> And a musical background for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCGu5Z_vaps
Nice quote about this, with focus on a bigger picture:
"""
Coreutils are tools like rm, mv, mkdir, etc. Unlike binutils, this isn't
a fertile ground for memory safety bugs. ....
But do you know what coreutils are a fertile ground for? Race conditions
around file creation, deletion, permission setting, and so on. ...
"""
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