Support sandbox builds by non-root users

This allows an unprivileged user to perform builds on a diverted store
(i.e. where the physical store location differs from the logical
location).

Example:

  $ NIX_LOG_DIR=/tmp/log NIX_REMOTE="local?real=/tmp/store&state=/tmp/var" nix-build -E \
    'with import <nixpkgs> {}; runCommand "foo" { buildInputs = [procps nettools]; } "id; ps; ifconfig; echo $out > $out"'

will do a build in the Nix store physically in /tmp/store but
logically in /nix/store (and thus using substituters for the latter).

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libstore/pathlocks.hh b/src/libstore/pathlocks.hh
index 8a6b1450da2a..40103c393f64 100644
--- a/src/libstore/pathlocks.hh
+++ b/src/libstore/pathlocks.hh
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ public:
 };
 
 
+// FIXME: not thread-safe!
 bool pathIsLockedByMe(const Path & path);