#pragma once #include "types.hh" #include "pathlocks.hh" #include <time.h> namespace nix { struct Generation { int number; Path path; time_t creationTime; Generation() { number = -1; } operator bool() const { return number != -1; } }; typedef list<Generation> Generations; /* Returns the list of currently present generations for the specified profile, sorted by generation number. */ Generations findGenerations(Path profile, int & curGen); class Store; Path createGeneration(ref<Store> store, Path profile, Path outPath); void deleteGeneration(const Path & profile, unsigned int gen); void deleteGenerations(const Path & profile, const std::set<unsigned int> & gensToDelete, bool dryRun); void deleteOldGenerations(const Path & profile, bool dryRun); void deleteGenerationsOlderThan(const Path & profile, time_t t, bool dryRun); void deleteGenerationsOlderThan(const Path & profile, const string & timeSpec, bool dryRun); void switchLink(Path link, Path target); /* Ensure exclusive access to a profile. Any command that modifies the profile first acquires this lock. */ void lockProfile(PathLocks & lock, const Path & profile); /* Optimistic locking is used by long-running operations like `nix-env -i'. Instead of acquiring the exclusive lock for the entire duration of the operation, we just perform the operation optimistically (without an exclusive lock), and check at the end whether the profile changed while we were busy (i.e., the symlink target changed). If so, the operation is restarted. Restarting is generally cheap, since the build results are still in the Nix store. Most of the time, only the user environment has to be rebuilt. */ string optimisticLockProfile(const Path & profile); }