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the8472 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Rootless Pings in Rust

From/Into conversion via OwnedFd is the safe API, RawFd is the older and lower-level one.

erk__ 6 months ago [–]

Ahh I guess that means that its possible in safe rust to cast a file descriptor to a different type. I was just looking at how socket2 did it and forgot to have a proper look.

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