const std = @import("std"); const builtin = @import("builtin"); const assert = std.debug.assert; const passwd = @import("passwd.zig"); const Error = error{ /// The buffer used for output is not large enough to store the value. BufferTooSmall, }; /// Determine the home directory for the currently executing user. This /// is generally an expensive process so the value should be cached. pub inline fn home(buf: []u8) !?[]u8 { return switch (builtin.os.tag) { inline .linux, .macos => try homeUnix(buf), else => @compileError("unimplemented"), }; } fn homeUnix(buf: []u8) !?[]u8 { // First: if we have a HOME env var, then we use that. if (std.os.getenv("HOME")) |result| { if (buf.len < result.len) return Error.BufferTooSmall; std.mem.copy(u8, buf, result); return buf[0..result.len]; } // Everything below here will require some allocation var tempBuf: [1024]u8 = undefined; var fba = std.heap.FixedBufferAllocator.init(&tempBuf); // If we're on darwin, we try the directory service. I'm not sure if there // is a Mac API to do this but if so we can link to that... if (builtin.os.tag == .macos) { const exec = try std.ChildProcess.exec(.{ .allocator = fba.allocator(), .argv = &[_][]const u8{ "/bin/sh", "-c", "dscl -q . -read /Users/\"$(whoami)\" NFSHomeDirectory | sed 's/^[^ ]*: //'", }, .max_output_bytes = fba.buffer.len / 2, }); if (exec.term == .Exited and exec.term.Exited == 0) { const result = trimSpace(exec.stdout); if (buf.len < result.len) return Error.BufferTooSmall; std.mem.copy(u8, buf, result); return buf[0..result.len]; } } // We try passwd. This doesn't work on multi-user mac but we try it anyways. fba.reset(); const pw = try passwd.get(fba.allocator()); if (pw.home) |result| { if (buf.len < result.len) return Error.BufferTooSmall; std.mem.copy(u8, buf, result); return buf[0..result.len]; } // If all else fails, have the shell tell us... fba.reset(); const exec = try std.ChildProcess.exec(.{ .allocator = fba.allocator(), .argv = &[_][]const u8{ "/bin/sh", "-c", "cd && pwd" }, .max_output_bytes = fba.buffer.len / 2, }); if (exec.term == .Exited and exec.term.Exited == 0) { const result = trimSpace(exec.stdout); if (buf.len < result.len) return Error.BufferTooSmall; std.mem.copy(u8, buf, result); return buf[0..result.len]; } return null; } fn trimSpace(input: []const u8) []const u8 { return std.mem.trim(u8, input, " \n\t"); } test { const testing = std.testing; var buf: [1024]u8 = undefined; const result = try home(&buf); try testing.expect(result != null); try testing.expect(result.?.len > 0); }