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Writing a simple windows driver in Rust


The Rust language ecosystem is growing each day, its popularity increasing, and with good reason. It’s the only mainstream language that provides memory and concurrency safety at compile time…

It’s the only mainstream language that provides memory and concurrency safety at compile time, with a powerful and rich build system (cargo), and a growing number of packages (crates). Next, we add two extern crates to get the support for the allocator and a panic handler – another thing that must be provided since the standard library is not included. The resulting file can be installed in the “normal” way for a software driver, such as using the sc.exe tool (from an elevated command window), on a machine with test signing on.

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