Let’s set aside our sup project for a while.
Don’t get me wrong - it’s a perfectly fine project, and, were we simply rewriting “ping” for Windows in Rust, we could (almost) stop there.
We’re currently using the operating system’s facility to speak ICMP, which is great for a bunch of reasons: we can be sure that whatever flaws there are in the implentation, all “native” Windows programs suffer from it as well.
As a bonus, the binary size is reasonable, (looks like 175KiB for me at time of this writing - built with cargo build --release, of course).
But we didn’t come here to make sensible decisions for production-grade software. We came here to bind Win32 APIs and dig our way down the network stack, and we’re all out of APIs to bind.
Don’t get me wrong - it’s a perfectly fine project, and, were we simply rewriting “ping” for Windows in Rust, we could (almost) stop there.
We’re currently using the operating system’s facility to speak ICMP, which is great for a bunch of reasons: we can be sure that whatever flaws there are in the implentation, all “native” Windows programs suffer from it as well.
As a bonus, the binary size is reasonable, (looks like 175KiB for me at time of this writing - built with cargo build --release, of course).
But we didn’t come here to make sensible decisions for production-grade software. We came here to bind Win32 APIs and dig our way down the network stack, and we’re all out of APIs to bind.
