Crate buffer_trait

A Buffer trait for reading into uninitialized buffers.

This is a repo about the Buffer trait idea covered in a recent blog post.

rustix’s Buffer trait is sealed for now, for practical reasons, and not all of the ideas discussed in the post are implemented.

To illustrate the full Buffer idea, this repo contains a library with a fully public Buffer trait, and adds support for a safe interface for using Buffer.

Feedback is welcome! Nothing here is set in stone.

Structs

Cursor

A cursor for safely writing into an uninitialized buffer.

SpareCapacityalloc

A type that implements Buffer by appending to a Vec, up to its capacity.

Traits

Buffer

A memory buffer that may be uninitialized.

Functions

spare_capacityalloc

Construct a SpareCapacity, which implements Buffer.