Re: [RFC PATCH v1 liburing 2/2] README: Explain about FFI support

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On 1/14/23 9:25?PM, Christian Mazakas wrote:
> For some historical context, this feature came about from trying to
> consume liburing from Rust. liburing is such a powerful library and
> it's hard to replace so a dependency on it is reasonable for
> applications wishing to leverage io_uring without developers being
> systems-level experts.
> 
> For languages that can't parse C headers, liburing-ffi saves quite a
> bit of effort in terms of bringing liburing itself to the application
> because it gives consumers a defined set of symbols in the binaries to
> link against.

Oh I know why it was done and why it's there, this is for the
purpose of the README addition. I think it should be a bit more
verbose and explain that.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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