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		kybernetyk 57 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25... They weren't written in Rust. But I wonder why the borrow checker wouldn't catch the date bug...

viraptor 57 days ago [–]

> where date ignores the -r/--reference=file argument

This has nothing to do with memory ownership, so borrow checker is irrelevant. Ubuntu just shipped before that argument's handling was implemented.

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