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I mentioned this on reddit, but AFAIK, the uutils project doesn't yet support locales: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/3997 I'm not any more a fan of POSIX locales than the next person[1], but AIUI, that seems a likely…

comment by burntsushi · 2025-03-13 · in Carefully but Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu

…utils, while retaining full compatibility with the existing utilities." https://uutils.github.io/ https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

comment by sillywalk · 2025-02-23 · in OpenBSD Innovations

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils Parent wasn't about rust specifically. Just something safer than C

comment by ptman · 2025-02-23 · in OpenBSD Innovations

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story by todsacerdoti · 2025-01-19 · 0 comments

…compared to making 13,498 commits. https://www.cvedetails.com/product/5075/GNU-Coreutils.html?v... https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

comment by hello_computer · 2024-11-03 · in Unix core utilities implemented in Haskell

Related: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils "Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils"

comment by fngjdflmdflg · 2024-07-22 · in Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls

If you want core utilities rewritten in Rust … ‘uutils’ is exactly that. https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

comment by tiffanyh · 2024-06-08 · in Memory-safe, clean implementation of classic Posix "BC" calculator

…and overloaded with rarely-used options. > A similar project with the aim of GNU compatibility is https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

comment by rfl890 · 2024-06-08 · in Memory-safe, clean implementation of classic Posix "BC" calculator

…are also being used to test alternative implementations, such as uutils coreutils[0], in Rust. 0. https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

comment by snvzz · 2024-02-21 · in How the GNU coreutils are tested (2017)

…as my default shell. They were also writing their own but recently decided instead to begin incorporating github.com/uutils/coreutils (Rust rewrite of GNU coreutils). They target uutils to be a drop-in replacement for the GNU utils.…

comment by abhinavk · 2024-01-21 · in The Bun Shell

…when to/not to rewrite code, but when you do, you do trade one set of bugs for a new set of bugs: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues

comment by andsoitis · 2024-01-03 · in Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

…that have been developed and maintained for decades and used by millions over that time period. https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/1420 https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/886 https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/5149…

comment by lohnjemon · 2024-01-03 · in Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

Think of it like a blackbox reimplementation, not porting existing code to another language: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/blob/244693f50e224abf726...

comment by Aissen · 2024-01-03 · in Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

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story by jcbhmr · 2024-01-03 · 305 comments

…you count. Methodology comments welcome. [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/#source [2]: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

comment by tczMUFlmoNk · 2023-11-23 · in Committing to Rust for Kernel Code

…Rust Implementation Of GNU Coreutils.[1] Could be a big win for memory safety and performance. [1] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

comment by slacka · 2023-11-06 · in The first stable release of a memory safe sudo implementation

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story by sylvestre · 2023-10-17 · 1 comment

…) The person you’re replying to was speaking of a different project - uutils ( https://github.com/uutils/coreutils ). These are drop in replacements with identical interfaces (modulo bugs).

comment by nindalf · 2023-03-02 · in Bsdutils: Alternative to GNU coreutils using software from FreeBSD

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils MIT license

comment by aver4geredditor · 2023-03-02 · in Bsdutils: Alternative to GNU coreutils using software from FreeBSD

…than having to reimplement a whole userland from scratch. Probably. But once it's reimplemented ( https://github.com/uutils/coreutils ) I think it's really cool you can run get binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows with one build command.

comment by nindalf · 2023-02-14 · in Curl audit: How a joke led to significant findings

…source code, it is impressive that this re-implementation is essentially complete! Look at this: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/tree/main/src/uu It's only missing some obscure and fringe things. It's not just a matter of having all…

comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2023-02-13 · in Reimplementing the Coreutils in a modern language (Rust)

…a long thread in the uutils repo with a discussion (slash flame war) about the license choice: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/834

comment by medler · 2023-02-13 · in Reimplementing the Coreutils in a modern language (Rust)

Link to the actual implementation: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils I love these re-implementations of things. Technology advances by the continued reinvention of the wheel, and even if some efforts end up being of merely didactic…

comment by enriquto · 2023-02-13 · in Reimplementing the Coreutils in a modern language (Rust)

Related, but sudo is not in scope for this project: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

comment by candiddevmike · 2022-11-04 · in Sudo: Heap-based overflow with small passwords

…attacking the project and the people behind it. I was a big fan of FSF until that point. [0] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

comment by faisal_ksa · 2022-10-08 · in Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War?

…of rewriting, but there are very much active efforts to rewrite things in rust (ex. coreutils - https://github.com/uutils/coreutils , OS - https://www.redox-os.org/ ) or to add rust to existing projects (Linux, Firefox and Chrome both (…

comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2022-07-22 · in Building a Rust Mentality

I heard only about this one: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils ("Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils")

comment by jwilk · 2022-07-18 · in How efficient can cat(1) be?

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story by marcodiego · 2022-04-03 · 1 comment

…is that uutils yes can be even faster than GNU yes by taking advantage of Linux's vmsplice syscall: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/blob/main/src/uu/yes/src... On my system it manages 20GB/s vs 6 GB/s (piping through pv into /dev/null).

comment by duckerude · 2022-01-29 · in An update on rust/coreutils

…Rust would you be able to use this as an OS abstraction layer by importing these sorts of things: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/blob/main/src/uu/chmod/s... Is this one of the intentions of this team? It sounds like it could make…

comment by gravypod · 2022-01-29 · in An update on rust/coreutils

…('utils') which are more or less stand-alone[0], so I think this mantra doesn't apply here. [0] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/tree/main/src/uu

comment by sva_ · 2022-01-29 · in An update on rust/coreutils

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/actions click on a CI job on main For example: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/runs/4990891225?check_su... The "Run GNU tests" is probably what you are looking for.

comment by sylvestre · 2022-01-29 · in An update on rust/coreutils

…most of the time by a simple if else. For example, adding new options usually looks like this PR: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/2880/files The performance wins are usually produced by using some fancy Rust features.

comment by sylvestre · 2022-01-29 · in An update on rust/coreutils

…folks (GPL advocates) who are disappointed about the choice of license (MIT). See, for example: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/2757

comment by mustache_kimono · 2021-12-08 · in Uutils: an attempt at writing cross-platform CLI utilities in Rust

…in 2021: https://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2021/03/09/debian-running-... > tldr: Rust/coreutils ( https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/ ) is now available in Debian, good enough to boot a Debian with GNOME, install the top 1000 packages,…

comment by steveklabnik · 2021-12-06 · in Uutils: an attempt at writing cross-platform CLI utilities in Rust

There's also this issue by FSF director Ian Kelling: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/1781 Honestly, it sounds like they're deeply scared of long-standing FSF-backed software having to compete (or even be replaced) with…

comment by marcan_42 · 2021-12-06 · in Uutils: an attempt at writing cross-platform CLI utilities in Rust

…and thinks this project has little merit other than to work around the GPL license of coreutils... https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/1781 I'm curious as to what extent GNU coreutils governance is tied to the FSF these days.

comment by marcan_42 · 2021-12-06 · in Uutils: an attempt at writing cross-platform CLI utilities in Rust

…do your own rewrite or, like Muse Group, outright buy the rights to the software and relicense. [1] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/834

comment by Toaster-King · 2021-12-06 · in Uutils: an attempt at writing cross-platform CLI utilities in Rust

…needs to be done, and imho, it is a bit premature to title this article as is presented here. [1] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils#utilities

comment by signa11 · 2021-12-06 · in Uutils: an attempt at writing cross-platform CLI utilities in Rust

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story by GhettoComputers · 2021-12-06 · 314 comments

…And I have a PR to fix problems in another Rust wrapper of the same libc functions: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/2653 It's hard to get right. Skimming the PR, the feedback looks reasonable.

comment by duckerude · 2021-11-26 · in Rust maintainer perfectionism, or, the tragedy of Alacritty (2020)

…existing ones. I will actually have a breakdown if someone tries to rewrite SQLite in Rust[2]. 1: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils 2: https://sqlite.org/testing.html

comment by lionkor · 2021-10-26 · in Writing a Linux-compatible kernel in Rust

…of indispensable component of a Linux-based OS - they aren't, and pretending they are hurts us. [1] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/1781 [2] https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2014-01/msg00247.html

comment by marcan_42 · 2021-09-30 · in What the GNU?

I think https://github.com/uutils/coreutils is aiming to provide drop-in replacements.

comment by justaj · 2021-06-20 · in Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical infrastructure

See also https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/

comment by dochtman · 2021-06-18 · in Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical infrastructure

…people have actually gone through the effort of rewriting the actual coreutils to spec in Rust ( https://github.com/uutils/coreutils ).

comment by Svetlitski · 2021-06-16 · in Show HN: fcp – A significantly faster alternative to cp(1), written in Rust

> tldr: Rust/coreutils ( https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/ ) is now available in Debian, Is it just my version of Firefox, or does anybody else get a line wrapping justification algo that ends the first line with "Debia" and begins the…

comment by jancsika · 2021-03-09 · in Debian Running on Rust Coreutils

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/search?q=gnu "This is the way it was implemented in GNU split." i dunno maybe there are cases where they copy more than behavior... but interesting to look through

comment by moocowtruck · 2021-03-09 · in Debian Running on Rust Coreutils

…up [2] and does not implement the old simple version [3] (or the even simpler OpenBSD [4]) [0]: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/uu/yes/s... [1]: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/yes.c [2]:…

comment by felixr · 2021-03-09 · in Debian Running on Rust Coreutils

…time is spending copying the files. For the factor command, some work happened to make it faster https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/commits/master/src/uu/fa... (getting closer). Using Rust also opens some great capabilities like…

comment by sylvestre · 2021-03-09 · in Debian Running on Rust Coreutils