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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] folkrav 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My point was intended to be more generic than just uutils though. Agreed that this specific project looks interesting.

And yes, I know the unsafe keyword is not inherently unsafe to use, but it's also, in practice, one of the few potential footguns of the language, and is easy to abuse and get wrong. It'll raise a few eyebrows in PRs and you'll be expected to have both good reasons and a good test coverage at the very minimum lol. It's a good red flag, if you do end up with runtime memory issues, that it's probably happening in that block, but past this, you're still basically foregoing some safety for convenience. And people fail. Often.