Hello everybody
I heard about Rust a few weeks ago and am very excited by this new language.
To get a grip I have created a simple web server, with the v0.5 of the
language: https://github.com/schaars/simple-web-server
It is quite limited, as it handles only 1 client at a time and HTTP 1.0
GET request, but it was interesting to write. Feel free to make any
comment :)
I have a few questions about the language. I hope this mailing list is
the right place to ask.
1) When I read a file, how can I make the difference between "file not
found" and "not authorized to open file"? In my web server I cannot make
it because in both cases the Result returned by io::read_whole_file() is
Err(~"error opening file").
2) I have not found how to use a single channel (pipes::stream) between
1 sender and n receivers. Is it possible?
The solution I found (but not implemented because I had a vector size
problem (https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/5112)), is to create
several channels and write to them in a round-robin manner, but it's not
ideal.
3) The different pointer types seem to be implicitly converted. What
happens when a conversion occurs? For instance if I convert a managed
box to an owned box, the pointed variable is moved from the private heap
to the exchange heap?
4) I have found a prototype error in
http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/core/files/str-rs.html#bytes : the name
of the function is to_bytes() instead of bytes(). By the way, this page
is very useful but hard to find: I have not found any link from
www.rust-lang.org
Best regards
Pierre Louis Aublin
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