Rust Libc Projects

nix

12 2,522 9.3 Rust

Rust friendly bindings to *nix APIs (by nix-rust)

Project mention: I was wrong about rust | /r/rust | 2023-05-20

If we drop std Rust ceases to be economical due to the time it would take to reimplement the data structures and IO interfaces it provides, not to mention the event loop crate we use (calloop). At that point we'd be relying on so much FFI via eg. nix that the relative safety would be diminished too. After reimplementing all that it's not clear to me that we'd even save that much size, but I suppose it's possible.

c-ward

2 164 9.5 Rust

An implementation of libc written in Rust

Project mention: New Linux glibc flaw lets attackers get root on major distros | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-04

Yeah it would. There are a few attempts, such as C-gull (https://github.com/sunfishcode/c-ward/tree/main/c-gull#readm...).
> c-gull is a libc implementation. It is an implementation of the ABI described by the libc crate.
> Currently it only supports --linux-gnu ABIs, though other ABIs could be added in the future. And currently this mostly focused on features needed by Rust programs, so it doesn't have all the C-idiomatic things like qsort yet, but they could be added in the future.

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