create pathAccessible, use it to infer default dirs

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/src/libexpr/eval.cc b/src/libexpr/eval.cc
index 61012f2ab..71fd6e6e4 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/eval.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/eval.cc
@@ -2620,17 +2620,12 @@ Strings EvalSettings::getDefaultNixPath()
 {
     Strings res;
     auto add = [&](const Path & p, const std::string & s = std::string()) {
-        try {
-            if (pathExists(p)) {
-                if (s.empty()) {
-                    res.push_back(p);
-                } else {
-                    res.push_back(s + "=" + p);
-                }
+        if (pathAccessible(p)) {
+            if (s.empty()) {
+                res.push_back(p);
+            } else {
+                res.push_back(s + "=" + p);
             }
-        } catch (SysError & e) {
-            // swallow EPERM
-            if (e.errNo != EPERM) throw;
         }
     };