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An appropriate amount of work to slap an MIT license on somebody else's work (reddthat.com)
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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Can somebody explain why they are using libc in the first place?

[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 29 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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