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-rw-r--r--nix/libstore/gc.cc9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/nix/libstore/gc.cc b/nix/libstore/gc.cc
index 16519116e4..f101de92d6 100644
--- a/nix/libstore/gc.cc
+++ b/nix/libstore/gc.cc
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
#include "misc.hh"
#include "local-store.hh"
+#include <string>
#include <functional>
#include <queue>
#include <algorithm>
@@ -226,10 +227,10 @@ static void readTempRoots(PathSet & tempRoots, FDs & fds)
//FDPtr fd(new AutoCloseFD(openLockFile(path, false)));
//if (*fd == -1) continue;
- /* Try to acquire a write lock without blocking. This can
- only succeed if the owning process has died. In that case
- we don't care about its temporary roots. */
- if (lockFile(*fd, ltWrite, false)) {
+ /* Try to acquire a write lock without blocking. This can only
+ succeed if the owning process has died, in which case we don't care
+ about its temporary roots, or if we are the owning process. */
+ if (i.name != std::to_string(getpid()) && lockFile(*fd, ltWrite, false)) {
printMsg(lvlError, format("removing stale temporary roots file `%1%'") % path);
unlink(path.c_str());
writeFull(*fd, "d");