[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Comments regarding rust-miow_0.3.1-1_amd64.changes

Chris Lamb lamby at debian.org
Thu Aug 23 11:20:48 BST 2018


Hi Angus,

> > Why is this called "miow"?  Something I/O for Windows?
> 
> The original/popular low-level IO library (select/poll abstraction) for
> Rust is called "mio" ("Metal I/O").  This is a Windows library along the
> same theme.

Ah, thanks.

> Just anticipating your next question: Yes, the  […]

Actually, I was only curious about the name.


Regards,

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