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		bdhcuidbebe on April 7, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: I built a Rust crate for running unsafe c... > I don’t write very much unsafe Rust code… but when I do, it’s because I’m calling the Win32 API. Check out windows-rs instead. https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs

dijit on April 7, 2025 [–]

I did look at that first.

In my case I am looking for NetUserAdd and associated functionality, which doesn’t exist in any wrapper crate I could find- since that would have been significantly easier than what I ended up needing to do.

But, how do they test their unsafe bits?

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