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| author | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2005-02-01 13:48:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2005-02-01 13:48:46 +0000 |
| commit | 630ae0c9d7f65a2d6bef85a5194b4d704e54eded (patch) | |
| tree | 1cbb2dce71e58abb4617239857bbd144b1f355c1 /src/libutil/util.hh | |
| parent | dcc37c236c66ba463bd61fec23d046485d8a412f (diff) | |
* nix-build: use an indirection scheme to make it easier for users to
get rid of GC roots. Nix-build places a symlink `result' in the
current directory. Previously, removing that symlink would not
remove the store path being linked to as a GC root. Now, the GC
root created by nix-build is actually a symlink in
`/nix/var/nix/gcroots/auto' to `result'. So if that symlink is
removed the GC root automatically becomes invalid (since it can no
longer be resolved). The root itself is not automatically removed -
the garbage collector should delete dangling roots.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/libutil/util.hh')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/libutil/util.hh | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/libutil/util.hh b/src/libutil/util.hh index 104e3f265..d9d5a7cdf 100644 --- a/src/libutil/util.hh +++ b/src/libutil/util.hh @@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ bool pathExists(const Path & path); in any way canonicalised. */ Path readLink(const Path & path); +bool isLink(const Path & path); + /* Read the contents of a directory. The entries `.' and `..' are removed. */ Strings readDirectory(const Path & path); |