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Smart Pointer

A struct that wraps a raw pointer and encodes an ownership policy in its destructor and access operators — unique ownership, shared counting, or borrowed views. The pointer's type documents and enforces who frees the allocation.

Questions this Concept answers

Why do the kernel's safe abstractions hand a driver its resources inside wrapper types rather than as raw pointers?

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Smart Pointers (Box, Rc, RefCell, Weak) in Rust

Rust's smart pointers (Box, Rc, RefCell, Weak) are structs that own the data they point to, extending beyond simple borrowing to solve ownership problems the compiler's static borrow checker cannot o…