commit | df55a15e5ce646808815381b3db47a8c66ea62f4 | [log] [tgz] |
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author | Mitchell Hashimoto <xmitchx@gmail.com> | Mon Aug 31 12:03:04 2015 -0700 |
committer | Mitchell Hashimoto <xmitchx@gmail.com> | Mon Aug 31 12:03:04 2015 -0700 |
tree | aecdeea045ed5e2733bc949dd54fa5306e4822e7 | |
parent | 56f508a88415ab57e596a176f0789ede8f790903 [diff] | |
parent | c76f73d5b52dd0c0788e9c0875ca22ecea2d7e7e [diff] |
Merge pull request #7 from sselph/master Switch from atomic.Value to sync.RWMutex for backward compatibility
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.