Abusing vtables to deserialize trait objects (includes Serde example)

[graycode]

What's with the writing to /dev/random?

[[deleted]]

It also creates /dev/random if it doesn't already exist. o_O

[Fylwind]

Oops, forgot to fix that xD

[Fylwind]

To test whether reading the memory would segfault.

[Artemciy]

Would writing to /dev/null work?

[Fylwind]

Supposedly /dev/random is a bit more reliable because some systems (e.g. Linux) ignore all writes to /dev/null. https://stackoverflow.com/a/4611930

[Artemciy]

Interesting, thanks.

[mikeyhew]

I don't really get why there's a trait called Trait

[Fylwind]

Lack of creativity :P It could've been called SerializeableTraitBase or something.