Discuss the WrapperStruct(UnsafeCell<some_c_struct>)FFI pattern

[tgross35]

Hey everyone,

I’d like to suggest adding the interior mutability FFI wrapper pattern to the FFI section, which usually looks something like this

#[repr(transparent)]
WrapperStruct(UnsafeCell<some_c_struct>)

This is used in e.g. the Linux kernel safe wrapper

I didn’t really understand it at first, but somebody explained it extremely well on Discord. Some of the explanation could likely be copied and pasted https://discord.com/channels/273534239310479360/818964227783262209/1040580112330002443

In general, I think the FFI section could use some updating, to be less of “this is how you call C functions” to more of “this is how you wrap a C API and make it safe”, since that’s what a lot of people are doing now as Rust works in to existing C projects. But that’s a big change, suitable for a separate issue.