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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2012-02-15T00·31+0100
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2012-02-15T00·31+0100
commitbd013b6f987c23c3b99b639ba7cdbc7b694a13f5 (patch)
treeb1726c5b26371a9ee0666ab0b6aff9b1df5755c5 /src/libutil/md32_common.h
parent5e57047d874e0f01dcb3bbc8b809fcc1aa82755b (diff)
On Linux, make the Nix store really read-only by using the immutable bit
I was bitten one time too many by Python modifying the Nix store by
creating *.pyc files when run as root.  On Linux, we can prevent this
by setting the immutable bit on files and directories (as in ‘chattr
+i’).  This isn't supported by all filesystems, so it's not an error
if setting the bit fails.  The immutable bit is cleared by the garbage
collector before deleting a path.  The only tricky aspect is in
optimiseStore(), since it's forbidden to create hard links to an
immutable file.  Thus optimiseStore() temporarily clears the immutable
bit before creating the link.
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