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by lamontcg 1140 days ago
Why would sudo/su need a lot of tricky unsafe code?
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AnIrishDuck 1140 days ago
Using grep, it looks like they mostly use unsafe code to interface with existing C libraries. In those cases it's roughly as tricky as writing C in the first place IMO, so still probably a net win.
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Gigachad 1139 days ago
So over time we can trim this down as more C libraries are upgraded to Rust.
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