# Redox support in \`liblibc\` and \`libstd\`

**URL:** <https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/redox-support-in-liblibc-and-libstd/3954>\
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**Created:** [August 31, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/redox-support-in-liblibc-and-libstd/3954 "2016-08-31T20:24:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/redox-support-in-liblibc-and-libstd/3954/2 "2016-08-31T22:35:55Z")

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Out of curiosity can you procure a GitHub link diffing the two projects? I’d like to see how much code is involved.

If we decide to merge support for the two I don’t think an RFC will be required. We routinely add platform support.

The main issues here in my opinion are:

- The size of the patches. If the amount of code is comparable to a unix that is easier to consider than if the amount of comparable to the difference between unix/windows.

- The amount of maintenance burden this will impose. Redox is under heavy development. I don’t want to see the rust-lang/rust PR queue overwhelmed by Redox churn. Rust contributors shouldn’t have to deal with that.

- Not all OSes can have in-tree support from Rust. std is intended to be decomposed in a way that allows others to build on that work out-of-tree, though it does not fulfill that yet. That you are currently successfully overriding liblibc is great - that’s exactly how it should work. std itself though needs a great deal of refactoring to support this. I have [previously outlined](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1502#issuecomment-204519450) how I believe std should be architected to allow std to be reused out-of-tree for other OSes. As a high-profile, and active Rust project, Redox _may_ be appropriate to support in-tree, but that’s not obvious; there will definitely be a lot of push back.

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