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Diffstat (limited to 'guix/ui.scm')
| -rw-r--r-- | guix/ui.scm | 16 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/guix/ui.scm b/guix/ui.scm index 47a118364a..6f2d4fe245 100644 --- a/guix/ui.scm +++ b/guix/ui.scm @@ -200,6 +200,20 @@ information, or #f if it could not be found." (parameterize (((@ (system base compile) default-optimization-level) 1)) exp)) +(define (try-canonicalize-path file) + "Like 'canonicalize-path', but return FILE as-is if 'canonicalize-path' +throws. + +This is necessary for corner cases where 'canonicalize-path' fails. One +example is on Linux when a /dev/fd/N file denotes a pipe, represented as a +symlink to a non-existent file like 'pipe:[1234]', as in this example: + + sh -c 'stat $(readlink -f /dev/fd/1)' | cat" + (catch 'system-error + (lambda () + (canonicalize-path file)) + (const file))) + (define* (load* file user-module #:key (on-error 'nothing-special)) "Load the user provided Scheme source code FILE." @@ -230,7 +244,7 @@ information, or #f if it could not be found." ;; 'primitive-load', so that FILE is compiled, which then allows ;; us to provide better error reporting with source line numbers. (without-compiler-optimizations - (load (canonicalize-path file)))) + (load (try-canonicalize-path file)))) (const #f)))))) (lambda _ ;; XXX: Errors are reported from the pre-unwind handler below, but |