commit | 981ab348d865cf048eb7d17e78ac7192632d8415 | [log] [tgz] |
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author | Mitchell Hashimoto <xmitchx@gmail.com> | Tue Mar 01 10:31:30 2016 -0800 |
committer | Mitchell Hashimoto <xmitchx@gmail.com> | Tue Mar 01 10:31:30 2016 -0800 |
tree | 5e8af7205ac31729848ad9165c193ab0f9a3e4b9 | |
parent | d682a8f0cf139663a984ff12528da460ca963de9 [diff] | |
parent | fc14d498664482d0015b8b29147da9738dc50482 [diff] |
Merge pull request #9 from LC2010/master fixed getent missing check bug
This is a Go library for detecting the user's home directory without the use of cgo, so the library can be used in cross-compilation environments.
Usage is incredibly simple, just call homedir.Dir()
to get the home directory for a user, and homedir.Expand()
to expand the ~
in a path to the home directory.
Why not just use os/user
? The built-in os/user
package requires cgo on Darwin systems. This means that any Go code that uses that package cannot cross compile. But 99% of the time the use for os/user
is just to retrieve the home directory, which we can do for the current user without cgo. This library does that, enabling cross-compilation.