Tracking Issue for read_buf_at

[niklasf]

Feature gate: #![feature(read_buf_at)]

This is a tracking issue for FileExt::read_buf_at() and related methods, providing positioned reads into unintialized buffers.

#![feature(read_buf)] adds support for reads into unintialized buffers via BorrowedBuf and BorrowedCursor. This feature expands that to reads from specific offsets.

Public API

// std::os::unix::fs
trait FileExt {
    // [...] (existing methods)

    /// Equivalent to read_at()
    fn read_buf_at(&self, buf: BorrowedCursor<'_>, offset: u64) -> io::Result<()>;

    /// Equivalent to read_exact_at()
    fn read_buf_exact_at(&self, buf: BorrowedCursor<'_>, offset: u64) -> io::Result<()>;
}

// std::os::windows::fs
trait FileExt {
    // [...] (existing methods)

    /// Equivalent to seek_read()
    fn seek_read_buf(&self, buf: BorrowedCursor<'_>, offset: u64) -> io::Result<()>;
}

Steps / History

• ACP: Positioned reads into uninitialized buffers (FileExt::read_buf_at, ...) libs-team#581
• Implementation: Add read_buf equivalents for positioned reads #140459
• Final comment period (FCP)¹
• Stabilization PR

Unresolved Questions

• #![feature(core_io_borrowed_buf)] changes before stabilization?
• #![feature(read_buf)] changes before stabilization?

Footnotes

1. https://std-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/feature-lifecycle/stabilization.html ↩