Add AF_VSOCK based SocketAddr #1558
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vsock-rs currently uses a mix of nix and libc to handle the underlying system calls. However, in addition to adding a few extra dependencies, this means that there is a significant amount of unneeded unsafe code in the project. By porting to "rustix", we gain the following advantages: - Most of the code in the project can be rewritten completely safely. - We avoid going through libc. In other projects this has been benchmarked to lead to a 2.5% performance increase. - On Linux, we reduce the number of dependencies the project pulls in. On other platforms, it stays the same. Blocked on bytecodealliance/rustix#1558 Signed-off-by: John Nunley <dev@notgull.net>
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This is necessary in order to connect to AF_VSOCK sockets, or listen on the AF_VSOCK socket type. Signed-off-by: John Nunley <dev@notgull.net>
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vsock-rs currently uses a mix of nix and libc to handle the underlying system calls. However, in addition to adding a few extra dependencies, this means that there is a significant amount of unneeded unsafe code in the project. By porting to "rustix", we gain the following advantages: - Most of the code in the project can be rewritten completely safely. - We avoid going through libc. In other projects this has been benchmarked to lead to a 2.5% performance increase. - On Linux, we reduce the number of dependencies the project pulls in. On other platforms, it stays the same. Blocked on bytecodealliance/rustix#1558 Signed-off-by: John Nunley <dev@notgull.net>
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This is necessary in order to connect to AF_VSOCK sockets, or listen
on the AF_VSOCK socket type.
Dependent on sunfishcode/linux-raw-sys#177