forked from lix-project/lix
![]() I was bitten one time too many by Python modifying the Nix store by creating *.pyc files when run as root. On Linux, we can prevent this by setting the immutable bit on files and directories (as in ‘chattr +i’). This isn't supported by all filesystems, so it's not an error if setting the bit fails. The immutable bit is cleared by the garbage collector before deleting a path. The only tricky aspect is in optimiseStore(), since it's forbidden to create hard links to an immutable file. Thus optimiseStore() temporarily clears the immutable bit before creating the link. |
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corepkgs | ||
doc | ||
externals | ||
misc | ||
perl | ||
scripts | ||
src | ||
tests | ||
.gitignore | ||
AUTHORS | ||
bootstrap.sh | ||
configure.ac | ||
COPYING | ||
INSTALL | ||
Makefile.am | ||
nix.conf.example | ||
nix.spec.in | ||
README | ||
release.nix | ||
substitute.mk | ||
version |
Nix is a purely functional package manager. For installation and usage instructions, please read the manual, which can be found in `docs/manual/manual.html', and additionally at the Nix website at <http://nixos.org/>. Acknowledgments This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.OpenSSL.org/).