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wording; and explain some of the possible consequences of violating io-safety
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//! subsume similar concepts that exist across a wide range of operating systems even if they might
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//! use a different name, such as "handle".) An exclusively owned file descriptor is one that no
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//! other code is allowed to close, but the owner is allowed to close it any time. A type that owns
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//! its file descriptor should close it in its `drop` function. Types like [`File`] generally own
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//! its file descriptor should usually close it in its `drop` function. Types like [`File`] generally own
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//! their file descriptor. Similarly, file descriptors can be *borrowed*. This indicates that the
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//! file descriptor will not be closed for the lifetime of the borrow, but it does *not* imply any
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//! right to close this file descriptor, since it will likely be owned by someone else.
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//! other words, a safe function that takes a regular integer, treats it as a file descriptor, and
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//! closes it, is *unsound*.
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//!
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//! Not upholding I/O safety and closing a file descriptor without proof of ownership can lead to
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//! misbehavior and even Undefined Behavior in code that relies on ownership of its file
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//! descriptors: the closed file descriptor could be re-allocated to some other library (such as the
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//! allocator or a memory mapping library) and now accessing the file descriptor will interfere in
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//! arbitrarily destructive ways with that other library.
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//!
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//! Note that this does not talk about performing other operations on the file descriptor, such as
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//! reading or writing. For example, on Unix, the [`OwnedFd`] and [`BorrowedFd`] types from the
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//! standard library do *not* exclude that there is other code that reads or writes the same
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//!
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//! This module provides three types for representing file descriptors,
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//! with different ownership properties: raw, borrowed, and owned, which are
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//! analogous to types used for representing pointers. These types realize the Unix version of [I/O safety].
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//! analogous to types used for representing pointers. These types reflect the Unix version of [I/O safety].
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//!
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//! | Type | Analogous to |
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//! | ------------------ | ------------ |
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//!
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//! This module provides three types for representing raw handles and sockets
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//! with different ownership properties: raw, borrowed, and owned, which are
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//! analogous to types used for representing pointers. These types realize the Windows version of [I/O safety].
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//! analogous to types used for representing pointers. These types reflect the Windows version of [I/O safety].
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//!
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//! | Type | Analogous to |
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//! | ---------------------- | ------------ |
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