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Smart pointers for the kernel

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169 points signa11 | 1 comments | 18 Oct 24 02:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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DoubleDecoded ◴[18 Oct 24 02:59 UTC] No.41875994[source]▶
"could break the guarantees" is a weak guarantee then.
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1. josephcsible ◴[18 Oct 24 03:05 UTC] No.41876027[source]▶
It's still a guarantee. The point of the guarantee isn't that no code can cause certain kinds of problems, but rather that any code that can must be marked unsafe.