[Panino]

I'm currently switching my Go code to Rust in part because of the syscall related Go trouble:

> Users of syscall(2), such as Perl and the Go programming language were converted to use the libc functions.

I think the following may still need to be converted:

  * unix.Pledge from golang.org/x/sys/unix
  * unix.Unveil from golang.org/x/sys/unix
  * terminal.ReadPassword from golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/terminal

[qweqwe14]

Didn't Go already realize that it can't use direct syscalls on anything other than Linux? They made some mistakes in the past but by this point I think they learned their lesson.

On Linux, using direct syscalls is a good idea, since it's the stable userspace-kernel interface. There's really no need for libc on Linux, each language should just implement it's standard library on top of syscalls.

[int_19h]

They knew it all along, since it's well-documented. But they don't seem to care about it until they get burned. Which first happened on macOS, so that was switched; then OpenBSD.

This was previously discussed at length here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25999623

[zokier]

> There's really no need for libc on Linux, each language should just implement it's standard library on top of syscalls.

Its not always not so clearcut. For example using pthreads instead of just calling clone can be useful for interop etc. Similarly, anything involving NSS is probably best done through libc. Having libc malloc integrated makes interacting with other C libs easier. And so on.

[LAC-Tech]

There's really no need for libc on Linux, each language should just implement it's standard library on top of syscalls.

Rustix is a great implementation of that idea https://docs.rs/rustix/latest/rustix/

Any similar projects in other langs?

[tedunangst]

They were converted months ago.

[ikmckenz]

Have you updated your packages with ‘pkg_add -u’?

[Panino]

Yes, I run -current so I update packages frequently.

After tedu's comment here I installed 7.5 in a VM and could build and run my Go software in it successfully, so I figured there were some Go build or config files or something somewhere getting in the way. I pkg_delete'd go, removed every Go build/config file I could find, and re-added Go with pkg_add. Now I can build apps with the previously mentioned modules; everything works fine now.

Thank you for the responses. :-)

[citizenpaul]

Forgive my ignorance but is this something limited to go on openbsd? Or is it a general isssue with go?