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-rw-r--r--src/nix-collect-garbage/nix-collect-garbage.cc12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/nix-collect-garbage/nix-collect-garbage.cc b/src/nix-collect-garbage/nix-collect-garbage.cc
index d8ddf9ec4..a8f6c03c2 100644
--- a/src/nix-collect-garbage/nix-collect-garbage.cc
+++ b/src/nix-collect-garbage/nix-collect-garbage.cc
@@ -34,21 +34,23 @@ void runProgramSimple(Path program, const Strings & args)
void removeOldGenerations(std::string dir)
{
+ if (access(dir.c_str(), R_OK) != 0) return;
+
+ bool canWrite = access(dir.c_str(), W_OK) == 0;
+
for (auto & i : readDirectory(dir)) {
checkInterrupt();
- auto path = dir + "/" + i.name;
+ auto path = dir + "/" + i.name;
auto type = i.type == DT_UNKNOWN ? getFileType(path) : i.type;
- if (type == DT_LNK) {
+ if (type == DT_LNK && canWrite) {
auto link = readLink(path);
if (link.find("link") != string::npos) {
printMsg(lvlInfo, format("removing old generations of profile %1%") % path);
auto args = Strings{"-p", path, "--delete-generations", gen};
- if (dryRun) {
- args.push_back("--dry-run");
- }
+ if (dryRun) args.push_back("--dry-run");
runProgramSimple(settings.nixBinDir + "/nix-env", args);
}
} else if (type == DT_DIR) {