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os/user: add a way to enforce pure Go implementation
This provides a way to enforce pure Go implementation of os/user lookup functions on UNIX platforms by means of "osusergo" build tag, in a manner similar to netgo/netcgo tags in the net package. If "osusergo" build tag is set, Go implementation is selected. If "osusergo" build tag is NOT set, the old behavior is retained, that is to use cgo (libc-backed) implementation if both cgo and such and such implementation are available. The reason behind this change is to make it possible to build proper static binaries on Linux. The problem is, glibc implementation of getpw*, getgrp* and getgrouplist functions relies on presense of libnss*.so libraries during runtime, making it impossible to build a self-contained static binary which uses both cgo and os/user. In such case, linker warnings like this are shown: > warning: Using 'getgrouplist' in statically linked applications > requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version > used for linking While this can be solved by recompiling glibc with --enable-static-nss flag or using a different libc implementation (like musl on Alpine Linux), it is not always practical or even possible. Fixes #23265 Change-Id: I383a448a2ecf15493ec93dbd5d076b6330cb14cb Signed-off-by: Kir Kolyshkin <kolyshkin@gmail.com> Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/92456 Run-TryBot: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org> TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org> Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
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