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authorAlyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>2023-06-16 06:56:35 +0000
committerAlyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>2023-06-16 06:56:35 +0000
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Merge branch 'nixos-unstable' of https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
Conflicts:
	nixpkgs/nixos/modules/config/console.nix
	nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/mail/mailman.nix
	nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/mail/public-inbox.nix
	nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/mail/rss2email.nix
	nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/networking/ssh/sshd.nix
	nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/dino/default.nix
	nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/networking/irc/weechat/default.nix
	nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/window-managers/sway/default.nix
	nixpkgs/pkgs/build-support/go/module.nix
	nixpkgs/pkgs/build-support/rust/build-rust-package/default.nix
	nixpkgs/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/default.nix
	nixpkgs/pkgs/development/node-packages/overrides.nix
	nixpkgs/pkgs/development/tools/b4/default.nix
	nixpkgs/pkgs/servers/dict/dictd-db.nix
	nixpkgs/pkgs/servers/mail/public-inbox/default.nix
	nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/security/pinentry/default.nix
	nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/text/unoconv/default.nix
	nixpkgs/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
Diffstat (limited to 'nixpkgs/lib/filesystem.nix')
-rw-r--r--nixpkgs/lib/filesystem.nix138
1 files changed, 120 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/nixpkgs/lib/filesystem.nix b/nixpkgs/lib/filesystem.nix
index 0a1275e547cf..4860d4d02a77 100644
--- a/nixpkgs/lib/filesystem.nix
+++ b/nixpkgs/lib/filesystem.nix
@@ -1,9 +1,103 @@
+# Functions for querying information about the filesystem
+# without copying any files to the Nix store.
 { lib }:
-{ # haskellPathsInDir : Path -> Map String Path
-  # A map of all haskell packages defined in the given path,
-  # identified by having a cabal file with the same name as the
-  # directory itself.
-  haskellPathsInDir = root:
+
+# Tested in lib/tests/filesystem.sh
+let
+  inherit (builtins)
+    readDir
+    pathExists
+    ;
+
+  inherit (lib.strings)
+    hasPrefix
+    ;
+
+  inherit (lib.filesystem)
+    pathType
+    ;
+in
+
+{
+
+  /*
+    The type of a path. The path needs to exist and be accessible.
+    The result is either "directory" for a directory, "regular" for a regular file, "symlink" for a symlink, or "unknown" for anything else.
+
+    Type:
+      pathType :: Path -> String
+
+    Example:
+      pathType /.
+      => "directory"
+
+      pathType /some/file.nix
+      => "regular"
+  */
+  pathType =
+    builtins.readFileType or
+    # Nix <2.14 compatibility shim
+    (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 ${toString path} does not exist."
+      # The filesystem root is the only path where `dirOf / == /` and
+      # `baseNameOf /` is not valid. We can detect this and directly return
+      # "directory", since we know the filesystem root can't be anything else.
+      else if dirOf path == path
+      then "directory"
+      else (readDir (dirOf path)).${baseNameOf path}
+    );
+
+  /*
+    Whether a path exists and is a directory.
+
+    Type:
+      pathIsDirectory :: Path -> Bool
+
+    Example:
+      pathIsDirectory /.
+      => true
+
+      pathIsDirectory /this/does/not/exist
+      => false
+
+      pathIsDirectory /some/file.nix
+      => false
+  */
+  pathIsDirectory = path:
+    pathExists path && pathType path == "directory";
+
+  /*
+    Whether a path exists and is a regular file, meaning not a symlink or any other special file type.
+
+    Type:
+      pathIsRegularFile :: Path -> Bool
+
+    Example:
+      pathIsRegularFile /.
+      => false
+
+      pathIsRegularFile /this/does/not/exist
+      => false
+
+      pathIsRegularFile /some/file.nix
+      => true
+  */
+  pathIsRegularFile = path:
+    pathExists path && pathType path == "regular";
+
+  /*
+    A map of all haskell packages defined in the given path,
+    identified by having a cabal file with the same name as the
+    directory itself.
+
+    Type: Path -> Map String Path
+  */
+  haskellPathsInDir =
+    # The directory within to search
+    root:
     let # Files in the root
         root-files = builtins.attrNames (builtins.readDir root);
         # Files with their full paths
@@ -17,15 +111,18 @@
             builtins.pathExists (value + "/${name}.cabal")
           ) root-files-with-paths;
     in builtins.listToAttrs cabal-subdirs;
-  # locateDominatingFile :  RegExp
-  #                      -> Path
-  #                      -> Nullable { path : Path;
-  #                                    matches : [ MatchResults ];
-  #                                  }
-  # Find the first directory containing a file matching 'pattern'
-  # upward from a given 'file'.
-  # Returns 'null' if no directories contain a file matching 'pattern'.
-  locateDominatingFile = pattern: file:
+  /*
+    Find the first directory containing a file matching 'pattern'
+    upward from a given 'file'.
+    Returns 'null' if no directories contain a file matching 'pattern'.
+
+    Type: RegExp -> Path -> Nullable { path : Path; matches : [ MatchResults ]; }
+  */
+  locateDominatingFile =
+    # The pattern to search for
+    pattern:
+    # The file to start searching upward from
+    file:
     let go = path:
           let files = builtins.attrNames (builtins.readDir path);
               matches = builtins.filter (match: match != null)
@@ -44,10 +141,15 @@
     in go (if isDir then file else parent);
 
 
-  # listFilesRecursive: Path -> [ Path ]
-  #
-  # Given a directory, return a flattened list of all files within it recursively.
-  listFilesRecursive = dir: lib.flatten (lib.mapAttrsToList (name: type:
+  /*
+    Given a directory, return a flattened list of all files within it recursively.
+
+    Type: Path -> [ Path ]
+  */
+  listFilesRecursive =
+    # The path to recursively list
+    dir:
+    lib.flatten (lib.mapAttrsToList (name: type:
     if type == "directory" then
       lib.filesystem.listFilesRecursive (dir + "/${name}")
     else