In April 2026, Canonical disclosed 44 CVEs in uutils, the Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutil…
  • RumRunningDevil@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    I’m not a rust programmer, can anyone with experience in systems programming explain a legitimate use case for the uutils other than weakening the GPL? The auther even admits that several coreutils are still GNU in 26.04 which begs one to ask “why the rewrite?”

  • Visstix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    22 hours ago

    I was very confused by this sentence until I realized it’s a programming thingy.

    • sidelove@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      18 hours ago

      Wait, what? How? It compiles down to bare metal without a runtime. People write OSes and program microcontrollers with it. For any arbitrary C program, it’s possible to write Rust code such that it compiles down to the same bytecode. Am I missing something?