override rx directory permissions in deletePath()

This fixes instantiation of pythonPackages.pytest that produces a
directory with less permissions during one of it's tests that leads to
a nix error like:

error: opening directory ‘/tmp/nix-build-python2.7-pytest-2.9.2.drv-0/pytest-of-user/pytest-0/testdir/test_cache_failure_warns0/.cache’: Permission denied

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/libutil/util.cc b/src/libutil/util.cc
index f1e714a664a5..95103c4e5d12 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/util.cc
@@ -330,10 +330,11 @@ static void _deletePath(const Path & path, unsigned long long & bytesFreed)
         bytesFreed += st.st_blocks * 512;
 
     if (S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) {
-        /* Make the directory writable. */
-        if (!(st.st_mode & S_IWUSR)) {
-            if (chmod(path.c_str(), st.st_mode | S_IWUSR) == -1)
-                throw SysError(format("making ‘%1%’ writable") % path);
+        /* Make the directory accessible. */
+        const auto PERM_MASK = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IXUSR;
+        if ((st.st_mode & PERM_MASK) != PERM_MASK) {
+            if (chmod(path.c_str(), st.st_mode | PERM_MASK) == -1)
+                throw SysError(format("chmod ‘%1%’") % path);
         }
 
         for (auto & i : readDirectory(path))