commit | 3864e76763d94a6df2f9960b16a20a33da9f9a66 | [log] [tgz] |
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author | Mitchell Hashimoto <mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com> | Wed May 23 09:45:22 2018 |
committer | Mitchell Hashimoto <mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com> | Wed May 23 09:45:22 2018 |
tree | 7d1fac83135ade684157dfcd7ba1a010dd4d2b90 | |
parent | ddd64a0d6085ae4000dafce91b826296930edbdd [diff] |
On plan9, prefer lowercase "home" env var
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.