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You can call into the kernel just fine in Windows. The fact you use a function call wrapper instead of a raw syscall is not really relevant. Most Windows NT kernel functions take a…

Servo was sparsely maintained for years after Mozilla abandoned the project. Just in the last year it has picked steam as an independent project with a range of third party sponsor…

Maybe give them a second? Yes, it's usable for applications web views if you're willing to restrict yourself but for general purpose web browsing there's still a lot that needs doi…

Like all such metrics, the specifics don't really matter. All that matters is that you can tell a story, over the course of the year, on how you've "improved". The goal is to use t…

Or you could use powershell and avoid the issue ;). Though nowadays system files should be protected even from admin and even if you do manage to delete them, Windows can restore t…

VMs should have VirtIO RNG set up so there is a high quality entropy source at boot time, provided by the host system.

Yep, that's why I was asking. I'd be very interested to hear of more candidates for uplifting into std. I guess saying "every project" has 5 dependencies might be somewhat hyperbol…

Can you name 5 as an example?

What law?

In that specific sentence the source is cited (via hyperlink). So even if you read it out of all context you can still find out the source is UK's Children’s Commissioner Dame Rach…

For some background on what I meant see: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140411-00/?p=12... https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/universal-crt-...

Calling it from C does not mean you need a full C standard library to exist. For example, much of the C standard library is itself written in C. But it's a "freestanding" C which a…

The Win32 API. E.g. using WriteFile to write files ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/... ) It wasn't until fairly recently that the C runtime was stably…

You can open directories using high level win32 APIs. What you need NtCreateFile for is opening files relative to an open directory.

> WinAPI access for ACLs was added in Windows 10 I'm not sure which docs you mean but that's not true. The NT kernel has used ACLs long before rust was invented. But it's indeed tr…

Oh sorry, I thought this was just listing changes since the branch.

> Many projects including Chromium, boringssl, Firefox, and Rust call SystemFunction036 from advapi32.dll because it worked on versions older than Windows 8. That's not true. They …

I think you're too stuck on the current implementation. Work is going into investigating how to evolve the standard library over editions. The "easiest" win would be to have a way …

> Aurich Lawson of Ars Technica deleted the original article That's a very "shoot the messenger" statement. While Aurich is the community "face" of Ars, I very much doubt he has th…