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Diffstat (limited to 'src/libstore/build.cc')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/libstore/build.cc | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/libstore/build.cc b/src/libstore/build.cc index ba28e78c8..f406c89d2 100644 --- a/src/libstore/build.cc +++ b/src/libstore/build.cc @@ -2065,7 +2065,7 @@ void linkOrCopy(const Path & from, const Path & to) file (e.g. 32000 of ext3), which is quite possible after a 'nix-store --optimise'. FIXME: actually, why don't we just bind-mount in this case? - + It can also fail with EPERM in BeegFS v7 and earlier versions which don't allow hard-links to other directories */ if (errno != EMLINK && errno != EPERM) @@ -4101,8 +4101,13 @@ void DerivationGoal::registerOutputs() if (lstat(actualPath.c_str(), &st)) throw SysError("getting attributes of path '%1%'", actualPath); mode |= 0200; - if (chmod(actualPath.c_str(), mode) == -1) - throw SysError("changing mode of '%1%' to %2$o", actualPath, mode); + /* Try to change the perms, but only if the file isn't a + symlink as symlinks permissions are mostly ignored and + calling `chmod` on it will just forward the call to the + target of the link. */ + if (!S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) + if (chmod(actualPath.c_str(), mode) == -1) + throw SysError("changing mode of '%1%' to %2$o", actualPath, mode); } if (rename( actualPath.c_str(), |