From e4b0666f8eee3fc48f37c0cd3fd194c27652173c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:54:51 +0000
Subject: * builtins.filterSource: pass the type of the file ("regular",  
 "directory", "symlink") as the second argument to the filter   predicate.

---
 src/libexpr/primops.cc | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'src')

diff --git a/src/libexpr/primops.cc b/src/libexpr/primops.cc
index bc6e290a48fc..270bc4446bff 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/primops.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/primops.cc
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@
 #include "expr-to-xml.hh"
 #include "nixexpr-ast.hh"
 
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
 #include <algorithm>
 
 
@@ -739,7 +743,20 @@ struct FilterFromExpr : PathFilter
 
     bool operator () (const Path & path)
     {
-        Expr call = makeCall(filter, makePath(toATerm(path)));
+        struct stat st;
+        if (lstat(path.c_str(), &st))
+            throw SysError(format("getting attributes of path `%1%'") % path);
+
+        Expr call =
+            makeCall(
+                makeCall(filter, makePath(toATerm(path))),
+                makeStr(
+                    S_ISREG(st.st_mode) ? "regular" :
+                    S_ISDIR(st.st_mode) ? "directory" :
+                    S_ISLNK(st.st_mode) ? "symlink" :
+                    "unknown" /* not supported, will fail! */
+                    ));
+                
         return evalBool(state, call);
     }
 };
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