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lib.filesystem.pathType: Improve error for non-existent paths

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Previously it would fail with

  error: attribute 'nonexistent' missing

         at nixpkgs/lib/filesystem.nix:29:10:

             28|     if dirOf path == path then "directory"
             29|     else (readDir (dirOf path)).${baseNameOf path};
               |          ^
             30|
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Silvan Mosberger 2023-04-05 16:58:29 +02:00
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lib/filesystem.nix
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@ -22,10 +22,14 @@ in
Returns the type of a path: regular (for file), symlink, or directory.
*/
pathType = 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 ${toString path} does not exist."
# The filesystem root is the only path where `dirOf / == /` and
# `baseNameOf /` is not valid. We can detect this and directly return
# "directory", since we know the filesystem root can't be anything else.
if dirOf path == path
else if dirOf path == path
then "directory"
else (readDir (dirOf path)).${baseNameOf path};