misc: extend getpw to take uid as an argument #3523
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File system operations may return uid and gid values, which we may want
to pretty-print. We already have the code for getting information for
the current user, so just need to add a parameter to make it exposed for
every user. We expose information about groups in a similar manner also.
See here for example usage: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/39463/files#diff-16ee8fceb01f720774f142d023997ead47e5bfdb1e7a07ee9e8670f43f4db5e5R352