From b5bdfdef7320d74a98af1e53d64371e0cef2dbbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eelco Dolstra Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 14:19:21 +0200 Subject: macOS: Remove flags In particular, UF_IMMUTABLE (uchg) needs to be cleared to allow the path to be garbage-collected or optimised. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/25819. + the file from being garbage-collected. --- src/libstore/local-store.cc | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'src/libstore/local-store.cc') diff --git a/src/libstore/local-store.cc b/src/libstore/local-store.cc index aa985ee53d97..74c74e672e25 100644 --- a/src/libstore/local-store.cc +++ b/src/libstore/local-store.cc @@ -400,6 +400,16 @@ static void canonicalisePathMetaData_(const Path & path, uid_t fromUid, InodesSe { checkInterrupt(); +#if __APPLE__ + /* Remove flags, in particular UF_IMMUTABLE which would prevent + the file from being garbage-collected. FIXME: Use + setattrlist() to remove other attributes as well. */ + if (lchflags(path.c_str(), 0)) { + if (errno != ENOTSUP) + throw SysError(format("clearing flags of path ‘%1%’") % path); + } +#endif + struct stat st; if (lstat(path.c_str(), &st)) throw SysError(format("getting attributes of path ‘%1%’") % path); -- cgit 1.4.1