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I wouldn't have any confidence on a car which invokes coreutils in any manner. Too much surface area for embedded systems.
by wannabe44 · Sep 16, 2026
>But the Rust community needs to invest time and energy into finding why that's the case and fixing it. As I said in my post, the rust coreutils team HAS fixed this in 0.11. It'…
by linsomniac · Sep 16, 2026
Ubuntu's Rustification Has a New Milestone Coreutils Migration Is Complete
by signa11 · Sep 16, 2026 · 2 points
I think we are saying the same thing. By disk, i meant disk I/O which is the main practical purpose of the tool. Of course, Linux being Unix, a raw disk is a file, so is &#…
by torginus · Sep 16, 2026
The 'wierd syntax' has finally been getopt-ified. On the C GNU coreutils 'dd', and in a couple of the BSDs 'dd's. * https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/dd-with-getopt…
by JdeBP · Sep 16, 2026
Coreutils – Rejected Feature Requests
by birdculture · Sep 16, 2026 · 19 points
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The GNU Core Utilities or Coreutils is a collection of GNU software that implements many standard, Unix-based shell commands. The utilities generally provide POSIX compliant interface when the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is set, but otherwise offers a superset to the standard interface. For example, the utilities support long options and options after parameters. This environment variable enables a different functionality in BSD. Read more on Wikipedia