D7503: rust-dirs: address failing tests for `dirs` impl with a temporary fix
Yuya Nishihara
yuya at tcha.org
Wed Nov 27 08:29:13 EST 2019
> > I generally prefer adding safety checks at ABI boundary. If malicious input
> > makes Rust code crash or exhaust CPU/memory resource, I would add sanity
> > check to rust-cpython layer.
>
> Sure, that makes sense in our configuration, but we need to consider `hg-core` as its own standalone library when making decisions like this.
Okay, then using non-debug `assert!()` seems more appropriate. If we prefer
being stricter, "checked" HgPath type can be introduced.
> Either the `Dirs` / `dirs` API has changed to this new behavior (which I'm not super happy about), either we revert the changes proposed by Augie with a change in the fuzzer instead.
>
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> Sorry for the warnings, I'll send a follow-up, I've been caught up in another project.
Actually I tried to suppress these warnings by propagating Result upwards,
and I got a feeling that we're doing wrong.
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