Use std::filesystem in canonPath and local store symlink detection
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| while (!result.has_filename() && result.has_parent_path()) | ||
| { | ||
| // The parent of "D:/" is "D:/" so we need to be careful. | ||
| fs::path parent = result.parent_path(); | ||
| if (parent == result) | ||
| break; | ||
| result = parent; | ||
| } |
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I think a lexically_normal path can have at most one trailing separator, so you probably don't need a while loop here?
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| while (!result.has_filename() && result.has_parent_path()) | |
| { | |
| // The parent of "D:/" is "D:/" so we need to be careful. | |
| fs::path parent = result.parent_path(); | |
| if (parent == result) | |
| break; | |
| result = parent; | |
| } | |
| if (result.has_parent_path()) result = result.parent_path(); |
| // This function used to resolve 1024 symlinks via a custom implementation. | ||
| // The standard filesystem library will behave differently. For example, | ||
| // libstd++ in GCC will only resolve 40 symlinks. | ||
| // I hope that isn't a problem! |
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| // This function used to resolve 1024 symlinks via a custom implementation. | |
| // The standard filesystem library will behave differently. For example, | |
| // libstd++ in GCC will only resolve 40 symlinks. | |
| // I hope that isn't a problem! | |
| // This function used to resolve 1024 symlinks via a custom implementation. | |
| // The standard filesystem library will behave differently. For example, | |
| // libstd++ in GCC will only resolve 40 symlinks. | |
| // I hope that isn't a problem! |
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It is worth noting what happens if the recursion limit is exceeded. Does it throw an exception?
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https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/filesystem/path/lexically_normal says
Exceptions
May throw implementation-defined exceptions.
Great, lol
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std::filesystem in canonPath and local store symlink detection
| std::filesystem::path path = realStoreDir.get(); | ||
| std::filesystem::path root = path.root_path(); | ||
| while (path != root) { | ||
| if (std::filesystem::is_symlink(path)) |
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Would be nice to wrap is_symlink in an try-catch and re-throw a nix error instead the original exception that std::filesystem throws because those actually will have an error trace added when the exception is bubbled up.
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The function rethrowExceptionAsError() can be used for that. (Should be moved from local-derivation-goal.cc to libutil, probably.)
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Ok. Just make sure rethrowExceptionAsError() properly also logs paths as well this way so that users have a clue what goes wrong.
Motivation
Nix on Windows.
Context
Local store wouldn't work on Windows due to an infinite loop (paths never become "/" on Windows)
Canon path was always prepending the root path (e.g. D:/) which ended up with silly paths (e.g. D:/D:/nix/store) and it was quite a complicated function.
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