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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/filesystem.nix')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/filesystem.nix | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/filesystem.nix b/lib/filesystem.nix index 13f4ebb2640..db120a48c64 100644 --- a/lib/filesystem.nix +++ b/lib/filesystem.nix @@ -22,10 +22,14 @@ in Returns the type of a path: regular (for file), symlink, or directory. */ pathType = path: + if ! pathExists path + # Fail irrecoverably to mimic the historic behavior of this function and + # the new builtins.readFileType + then abort "lib.filesystem.pathType: Path ${toString path} does not exist." # The filesystem root is the only path where `dirOf / == /` and # `baseNameOf /` is not valid. We can detect this and directly return # "directory", since we know the filesystem root can't be anything else. - if dirOf path == path + else if dirOf path == path then "directory" else (readDir (dirOf path)).${baseNameOf path}; |