Fix #1762

nix-store --export, nix-store --dump, and nix dump-path would previously
fail silently if writing the data out failed, because
 a) FdSink::write ignored exceptions, and
 b) the commands relied on FdSink's destructor, which ignores
    exceptions, to flush the data out.

This could cause rather opaque issues with installing nixos, because
nix-store --export would happily proceed even if it couldn't write its
data out (e.g. if nix-store --import on the other side of the pipe
failed).

This commit adds tests that expose these issues in the nix-store
commands, and fixes them for all three.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/nix/dump-path.cc b/src/nix/dump-path.cc
index 1a1866437..f411c0cb7 100644
--- a/src/nix/dump-path.cc
+++ b/src/nix/dump-path.cc
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ struct CmdDumpPath : StorePathCommand
     {
         FdSink sink(STDOUT_FILENO);
         store->narFromPath(storePath, sink);
+        sink.flush();
     }
 };