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Diffstat (limited to 'guix/store.scm')
| -rw-r--r-- | guix/store.scm | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/guix/store.scm b/guix/store.scm index 8123407816..3d6cff4c21 100644 --- a/guix/store.scm +++ b/guix/store.scm @@ -582,7 +582,12 @@ encoding conversion errors." (operation (name args ...) docstring return ...))) (define-operation (valid-path? (string path)) - "Return #t when PATH is a valid store path." + "Return #t when PATH designates a valid store item and #f otherwise (an +invalid item may exist on disk but still be invalid, for instance because it +is the result of an aborted or failed build.) + +A '&nix-protocol-error' condition is raised if PATH is not prefixed by the +store directory (/gnu/store)." boolean) (define-operation (query-path-hash (store-path path)) |