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Patching Zig's Std

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Zig 0.17.0 shipped with std.http.Client.connectUnix broken. The fix is small, but even if I send it upstream today, the earliest it can ship is 0.18.0, and the time between Zig releases has typically been 6 to 9 months. That’s the deal you take when you stick to stable releases instead of following master. Well I don’t like that deal. I want my cake (a stable release) and to eat it too (fix bugs now), so let’s see h…

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