Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers written in Rust

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Quim
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Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers written in Rust

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Could be this useful to kernel development?
https://github.com/pravic/winapi-kmd-rs
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Re: Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers written in Rust

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Quim wrote: Thu Jan 17, 2019 6:26 am Could be this useful to kernel development?
https://github.com/pravic/winapi-kmd-rs
It seems that someone asked about ReactOS compatibility:
https://github.com/pravic/winapi-kmd-rs/issues/7
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Re: Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers written in Rust

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1) It would require shipping a Rust toolchain with RosBE
2) It would require us to maintain a separate set of API headers

So, unlikely. Although if it becomes more widespread, maybe some day it will make sense.
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Re: Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers written in Rust

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Or, unless someone here is willing to convert them to C and/or ASM, though C is to goto language for us.
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Re: Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers written in Rust

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Those are all example drivers (to demonstrate it's possible to write WDM drivers in Rust), so they have no value if you convert them.
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Re: Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers written in Rust

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Kernel written in Rust may exploit the WinAPI fact HANDLEs do not need to correspond to actual memory addresses.
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Re: Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers written in Rust

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erkinalp wrote: Thu Jan 24, 2019 8:40 am Kernel written in Rust may exploit the WinAPI fact HANDLEs do not need to correspond to actual memory addresses.
AAAAAaaaaaand ....... ?
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