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nix

cargo

Rust friendly bindings to *nix APIs

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PE Patrick Elsen 2026-05-28

nix@0.29.0

nix 0.29.0 wraps the Unix/POSIX syscall API over libc with about 825 focused unsafe FFI sites. Reviewed high-risk paths (cmsg decode, sockaddr length handling, mmap, fork/exec, signal transmutes) uphold their libc preconditions; source is byte-identical to VCS and build.rs is inert. No findings.

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