Lol thankfully i stopped before it ate any important info, but now I finally have all of that vital stuff being backed up to a hetzner storage box weekly now :)
The README lacks a description of why I would choose this over rm. The name makes me think it might replace shred but that doesn’t appear to be the case.
Can you share what would be a concrete example of the risk taken by running a RM program with a memory leak or dangling pointers? I fail to see, by my own ignorance, the benefit of memory safety everywhere. But I do enjoy the rust rewrites of shell tools because of the ergonomics, speed, and new functionalities. I’m asking because the first thing you mentioned as a benefit was memory safety.
Unfortunately, I don’t remember the source so we may need to go digging. But I recall reading that something like 1/3 of all bugs are related to memory safety. And those bugs translate to things like buffer overflow and privilege escalation attacks.
The proclaimed advantage is that by making the entirety of Rust memory safe, that entire class of bugs simply won’t exist for projects written in Rust. When they do happen, the bugs will be addressed by the language rather than many thousands of downstream projects. It should be an enormous gain in development performance for the world.
I think the idea makes sense. Time will tell us how well that works.
This probably isn’t the answer you’re looking for, but vpr being memory-safe isn’t a benefit that it has over rm, since rm apparently doesn’t allocate any memory (as @radiant_bloom wrote).
the first thing you mentioned as a benefit was memory safety.
Looks like I worded my project description poorly. As I wrote in another comment, I meant that this alternative is memory-safe (being written in safe Rust), but not that rm isn’t.
edit: I’ve updated the post’s title to clear things up
I don’t know whether rm is memory-safe or not, but vpr is. By ‘memory-safe alternative’ I meant that this alternative is memory-safe, but not that rm isn’t.
Presumably other *BSDs use something similar? Didn’t check out FreeBSD or anything.
Edit: So I suppose if you are using a BSD-type system (maybe including macOS?), and memory safety was important to you (to the point of extreme paranoia), then you might want to look into this rust project. Or just use the GNU implementation.
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