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Tracking Issue for `motor_ext`

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Description

Feature gate: #![feature(motor_ext)]

motor_ext feature provides extensions to Rust [std] library pertinent to Motor OS.

This is a tracking issue for stabilizing motor_ext feature, as discussed in the Motor OS stdlib PR.

Public API

At the moment, there is one trait specific to Motor OS:

pub trait ChildExt: Sealed {
    /// Extracts the main thread raw handle, without taking ownership
    #[unstable(feature = "motor_ext", issue = "$THIS_ISSUE")]
    fn sys_handle(&self) -> u64;
}

and generic OsStrExt, OsStringExt traits in os/motor/ffi.rs.

Steps / History

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Unresolved Questions
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Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reading the Motor OS stdlib PR #147000 and the stabilization guide linked in the issue. Review the ChildExt, OsStrExt, and OsStringExt APIs and the listed feature-lifecycle steps; done means completing the final comment period and producing a stabilization PR.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
operating-systems
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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