I tried to submit this in Go 1.4 as cl/107540044 but tripped over the
changes for getting C off the G stack. This is a rewritten version that
avoids cgo and works directly with the underlying log device.

Change-Id: I14c227dbb4202690c2c67c5a613d6c6689a6662a
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/1285Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>