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<div align="center">
<h1><code>rustix</code></h1>
<p>
<strong>Safe Rust bindings to POSIX/Unix/Linux/Winsock syscalls</strong>
</p>
<strong>A <a href="https://bytecodealliance.org/">Bytecode Alliance</a> project</strong>
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`rustix` provides efficient memory-safe and [I/O-safe] wrappers to POSIX-like,
Unix-like, Linux, and Winsock syscall-like APIs, with configurable backends. It
uses Rust references, slices, and return values instead of raw pointers, and
[I/O safety types] instead of raw file descriptors, providing memory safety,
[I/O safety], and [provenance]. It uses `Result`s for reporting errors,
[`bitflags`] instead of bare integer flags, an [`Arg`] trait with optimizations
to efficiently accept any Rust string type, and several other efficient
conveniences.
`rustix` is low-level and, and while the `net` API supports [Windows Sockets 2]
(Winsock), the rest of the APIs do not support Windows; for higher-level and
more portable APIs built on this functionality, see the [`cap-std`], [`memfd`],
[`timerfd`], and [`io-streams`] crates, for example.
`rustix` currently has two backends available:
* linux_raw, which uses raw Linux system calls and vDSO calls, and is
supported on Linux on x86-64, x86, aarch64, riscv64gc, powerpc64le,
arm (v5 onwards), mipsel, and mips64el, with stable, nightly, and 1.63 Rust.
- By being implemented entirely in Rust, avoiding `libc`, `errno`, and pthread
cancellation, and employing some specialized optimizations, most functions
compile down to very efficient code, which can often be fully inlined into
user code.
- Most functions in `linux_raw` preserve memory, I/O safety, and pointer
provenance all the way down to the syscalls.
* libc, which uses the [`libc`] crate which provides bindings to native `libc`
libraries on Unix-family platforms, and [`windows-sys`] for Winsock on
Windows, and is portable to many OS's.
The linux_raw backend is enabled by default on platforms which support it. To
enable the libc backend instead, either enable the "use-libc" cargo feature, or
set the `RUSTFLAGS` environment variable to `--cfg=rustix_use_libc` when
building.
## Cargo features
The modules [`rustix::io`], [`rustix::fd`], and [`rustix::ffi`] are enabled by
default. The rest of the API is conditional with cargo feature flags:
| Name | Description |
| ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `event` | [`rustix::event`]—Polling and event operations. |
| `fs` | [`rustix::fs`]—Filesystem operations. |
| `io_uring` | [`rustix::io_uring`]—Linux io_uring. |
| `mm` | [`rustix::mm`]—Memory map operations. |
| `mount` | [`rustix::mount`]—Linux mount API. |
| `net` | [`rustix::net`]—Network-related operations. |
| `param` | [`rustix::param`]—Process parameters. |
| `pipe` | [`rustix::pipe`]—Pipe operations. |
| `process` | [`rustix::process`]—Process-associated operations. |
| `procfs` | [`rustix::procfs`]—Utilities for reading `/proc` on Linux. |
| `pty` | [`rustix::pty`]—Pseudoterminal operations. |
| `rand` | [`rustix::rand`]—Random-related operations. |
| `shm` | [`rustix::shm`]—POSIX shared memory. |
| `stdio` | [`rustix::stdio`]—Stdio-related operations. |
| `system` | [`rustix::system`]—System-related operations. |
| `termios` | [`rustix::termios`]—Terminal I/O stream operations. |
| `thread` | [`rustix::thread`]—Thread-associated operations. |
| `time` | [`rustix::time`]—Time-related operations. |
| | |
| `use-libc` | Enable the libc backend. |
[`rustix::event`]: https://docs.rs/rustix/*/rustix/event/index.html
[`rustix::fs`]: https://docs.rs/rustix/*/rustix/fs/index.html
[`rustix::io_uring`]: https://docs.rs/rustix/*/rustix/io_uring/index.html
[`rustix::mm`]: https://docs.rs/rustix/*/rustix/mm/index.html
[`rustix::mount`]: https://docs.rs/rustix/*/rustix/mount/index.html
[`rustix::net`]: https://docs.rs/rustix/*/rustix/net/index.html
[`rustix::param`]: https://docs.rs/rustix/*/rustix/param/index.html
[`rustix::pipe`]: https://docs.rs/rustix/*/rustix/pipe/index.html
[`rustix::process`]: https://docs.rs/rustix/*/rustix/process/index.html
[`rustix::procfs`]: https://docs.rs/rustix/*/rustix/procfs/index.html
[`rustix::pty`]: https://docs.rs/rustix/*/rustix/pty/index.html
[`rustix::rand`]: https://docs.rs/rustix/*/rustix/rand/index.html
[`rustix::shm`]: https://docs.rs/rustix/*/rustix/shm/index.html
[`rustix::stdio`]: https://docs.rs/rustix/*/rustix/stdio/index.html
[`rustix::system`]: https://docs.rs/rustix/*/rustix/system/index.html
[`rustix::termios`]: https://docs.rs/rustix/*/rustix/termios/index.html
[`rustix::thread`]: https://docs.rs/rustix/*/rustix/thread/index.html
[`rustix::time`]: https://docs.rs/rustix/*/rustix/time/index.html
[`rustix::io`]: https://docs.rs/rustix/*/rustix/io/index.html
[`rustix::fd`]: https://docs.rs/rustix/*/rustix/fd/index.html
[`rustix::ffi`]: https://docs.rs/rustix/*/rustix/ffi/index.html
## 64-bit Large File Support (LFS) and Year 2038 (y2038) support
`rustix` automatically uses 64-bit APIs when available, and avoids exposing
32-bit APIs that would have the year-2038 problem or fail to support large
files. For instance, `rustix::fstatvfs` calls `fstatvfs64`, and returns a
struct that's 64-bit even on 32-bit platforms.
## Similar crates
`rustix` is similar to [`nix`], [`simple_libc`], [`unix`], [`nc`], [`uapi`],
and [`rusl`]. `rustix` is architected for [I/O safety] with most APIs using
[`OwnedFd`] and [`AsFd`] to manipulate file descriptors rather than `File` or
even `c_int`, and supporting multiple backends so that it can use direct
syscalls while still being usable on all platforms `libc` supports. Like `nix`,
`rustix` has an optimized and flexible filename argument mechanism that allows
users to use a variety of string types, including non-UTF-8 string types.
[`relibc`] is a similar project which aims to be a full "libc", including
C-compatible interfaces and higher-level C/POSIX standard-library
functionality; `rustix` just aims to provide safe and idiomatic Rust interfaces
to low-level syscalls. `relibc` also doesn't tend to support features not
supported on Redox, such as `*at` functions like `openat`, which are important
features for `rustix`.
`rustix` has its own code for making direct syscalls, similar to the
[`syscall`], [`sc`], and [`scall`] crates, using the Rust `asm!` macro.
`rustix` can also use Linux's vDSO mechanism to optimize Linux `clock_gettime`
on all architectures, and all Linux system calls on x86. And `rustix`'s
syscalls report errors using an optimized `Errno` type.
`rustix`'s `*at` functions are similar to the [`openat`] crate, but `rustix`
provides them as free functions rather than associated functions of a `Dir`
type. `rustix`'s `CWD` constant exposes the special `AT_FDCWD` value in a safe
way, so users don't need to open `.` to get a current-directory handle.
`rustix`'s `openat2` function is similar to the [`openat2`] crate, but uses I/O
safety types rather than `RawFd`. `rustix` does not provide dynamic feature
detection, so users must handle the [`NOSYS`] error themselves.
`rustix`'s `termios` module is similar to the [`termios`] crate, but uses I/O
safety types rather than `RawFd`, and the flags parameters to functions such as
`tcsetattr` are `enum`s rather than bare integers. And, rustix calls its
`tcgetattr` function `tcgetattr`, rather than `Termios::from_fd`.
## Minimum Supported Rust Version (MSRV)
This crate currently works on the version of [Rust on Debian stable], which is
currently [Rust 1.63]. This policy may change in the future, in minor version
releases, so users using a fixed version of Rust should pin to a specific
version of this crate.
## Minimum Linux Version
On Linux platforms, rustix requires at least Linux 3.2. This is at most the
oldest Linux version supported by:
- [any current Rust target], or
- [kernel.org] at the time of rustix's [MSRV] release.
The specifics of this policy may change in the future, but we intend it to
always reflect “very old” Linux versions.
[MSRV]: #minimum-supported-rust-version-msrv
[Rust 1.63]: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/08/11/Rust-1.63.0.html
[any current Rust target]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.html
[kernel.org]: https://www.kernel.org/releases.html
[Rust on Debian stable]: https://packages.debian.org/stable/rust/rustc
[Windows Sockets 2]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winsock/windows-sockets-start-page-2
[`nix`]: https://crates.io/crates/nix
[`unix`]: https://crates.io/crates/unix
[`nc`]: https://crates.io/crates/nc
[`simple_libc`]: https://crates.io/crates/simple_libc
[`uapi`]: https://crates.io/crates/uapi
[`rusl`]: https://lib.rs/crates/rusl
[`relibc`]: https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/relibc
[`syscall`]: https://crates.io/crates/syscall
[`sc`]: https://crates.io/crates/sc
[`scall`]: https://crates.io/crates/scall
[`openat`]: https://crates.io/crates/openat
[`openat2`]: https://crates.io/crates/openat2
[I/O safety types]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/os/fd/index.html#structs
[`termios`]: https://crates.io/crates/termios
[`libc`]: https://crates.io/crates/libc
[`windows-sys`]: https://crates.io/crates/windows-sys
[`cap-std`]: https://crates.io/crates/cap-std
[`memfd`]: https://crates.io/crates/memfd
[`timerfd`]: https://crates.io/crates/timerfd
[`io-streams`]: https://crates.io/crates/io-streams
[`bitflags`]: https://crates.io/crates/bitflags
[`Arg`]: https://docs.rs/rustix/*/rustix/path/trait.Arg.html
[I/O-safe]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/3128-io-safety.md
[I/O safety]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/3128-io-safety.md
[provenance]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/95228
[`OwnedFd`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/os/fd/struct.OwnedFd.html
[`AsFd`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/os/fd/trait.AsFd.html
[`NOSYS`]: https://docs.rs/rustix/*/rustix/io/struct.Errno.html#associatedconstant.NOSYS
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