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| -rw-r--r-- | src/libfetchers/input-accessor.hh | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/libfetchers/input-accessor.hh b/src/libfetchers/input-accessor.hh index 23c510d4d..1cb233c51 100644 --- a/src/libfetchers/input-accessor.hh +++ b/src/libfetchers/input-accessor.hh @@ -13,7 +13,17 @@ class Store; struct InputAccessor { - enum Type { tRegular, tSymlink, tDirectory, tMisc }; + enum Type { + tRegular, tSymlink, tDirectory, + /** + Any other node types that may be encountered on the file system, such as device nodes, sockets, named pipe, and possibly even more exotic things. + + Responsible for `"unknown"` from `builtins.readFileType "/dev/null"`. + + Unlike `DT_UNKNOWN`, this must not be used for deferring the lookup of types. + */ + tMisc + }; struct Stat { |