On Linux, most golang programs do not run as root (or at least, they should not),
by default, the kernels uses strict permissions, so most userland programs cannot
read `/sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid`. However, programs such as Consul are relying
on it to get fixed IDs, instead they have a different ID on each boot.
We propose to use `/etc/machine-id` as fallback https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/machine-id.html
In order to fix this, this patch does the following:
- if `/sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid` can be read, use it for HostID
- else if `/etc/machine-id` exists and has 32 chars, use it and add '-' to have the same format as product_uuid
- finally, if notthing works, use the `kernel.random.boot_id`
This will greatly increase the number of programs having correct behaviour when
those rely on having a fixed HostID.
This will fix the following issues:
- https://github.com/shirou/gopsutil/issues/350
- https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/4741
Same as commit fc04d2d, but for mips64le from mipsle definition.
It would be nice if anyone can check with the correctness, since the
qemu environment for mips64/mips64le can't run Go properly due to this
issue: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15416
The order of init function execution is dependant on the order that the
source files are passed to the compiler. This causes issues when
building under other build systems, such as bazel or buck, as they are
not guarenteed to maintain the same file order as the default go tool.
Improve performance by eliminating the fork out to uname on FreeBSD which also helps prevent crashes / hangs due to the outstanding fork crash bug:
golang/go#15658
Also added a test for PlatformInformation.
In order to improve performance and help prevent crashes due to the outstanding fork crash bug:
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15658
Replace string parsed values from the sysctl command with native reads of sysctl values using unix.SysctlRaw and unix.SysctlUint32.
This also merges OpenBSD and FreeBSD load implementations which are identical.
