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authorShea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>2014-12-09T13·21-0500
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-12-10T11·26+0100
commit50c33528112d26c0701ce23d435faedb89987b96 (patch)
tree586c5f83dc47faca18a926727018fa3087f9fdc8 /src/libexpr/primops.cc
parent2f16946064b03b92ed5e3a7aea8e222813ea89c2 (diff)
builtins.readFile: realise context associated with the path
Diffstat (limited to 'src/libexpr/primops.cc')
-rw-r--r--src/libexpr/primops.cc8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/libexpr/primops.cc b/src/libexpr/primops.cc
index e7b79604699b..1ddeac6b2f88 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/primops.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/primops.cc
@@ -756,8 +756,12 @@ static void prim_readFile(EvalState & state, const Pos & pos, Value * * args, Va
 {
     PathSet context;
     Path path = state.coerceToPath(pos, *args[0], context);
-    if (!context.empty())
-        throw EvalError(format("string ‘%1%’ cannot refer to other paths, at %2%") % path % pos);
+    try {
+        realiseContext(context);
+    } catch (InvalidPathError & e) {
+        throw EvalError(format("cannot read ‘%1%’, since path ‘%2%’ is not valid, at %3%")
+            % path % e.path % pos);
+    }
     mkString(v, readFile(path).c_str());
 }