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On Linux, make the Nix store really read-only by using the immutable bit
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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#include <limits.h>
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#include "util.hh"
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#include "immutable.hh"
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extern char * * environ;
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struct stat st = lstat(path);
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if (S_ISDIR(st.st_mode) || S_ISREG(st.st_mode)) makeMutable(path);
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if (!S_ISDIR(st.st_mode) && st.st_nlink == 1) {
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bytesFreed += st.st_size;
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blocksFreed += st.st_blocks;
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