Can not build on illumos

[Toasterson]

Describe The Bug

The users crate has a open PR which is required to build on illumos

To Reproduce

Build this crate on illumos

Link to PR

ogham/rust-users#49

[sagiegurari]

i see the PR is open for a long time with no response. any better alternative to that crate?

[Toasterson]

In your usecase maybe libc crate directly? the users crate is pretty fundamental and seems unmaintained. A request for maintainer change is the only thing I can come up with. crates like whoami use the posix and windows API's directly but also lack illumos support. And the API you are using is pretty much one libc function that could be copied from the users crate.

If I look at https://github.com/ogham/rust-users/blob/master/src/base.rs#L552-L557 one could rip out these two functions and thats all that this crate needs. The incompatible parts are the Os specific extensions that the users crate also supports.

[sagiegurari]

i'm thinking i can make it even simpler.... let me investigate it a bit.

[sagiegurari]

@Toasterson i think it should be resolved now.

[Toasterson]

Yeah that definitely resolves the issue. And I think in the context of cargo-make this also adds a nice prefix to the path that should also work on Windows?

[sagiegurari]

for windows the scripts are positioned in /fsio/randomfile while in linux/mac/... its at /fsio_/fsio/randomfile
reason is that the temp dir can be shared in linux so i need an upper level folder to be different between users so it can be deleted later on. before, i used the username but now i'm just putting some random string.

[sagiegurari]

closing as this is resolved.