Merge pull request #9985 from alois31/symlink-resolution

Restore `builtins.pathExists` behavior on broken symlinks

src/libutil/source-path.hh

@@ -11,6 +11,26 @@
 
 namespace nix {
 
+/**
+ * Note there is a decent chance this type soon goes away because the problem is solved another way.
+ * See the discussion in https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9985.
+ */
+enum class SymlinkResolution {
+    /**
+     * Resolve symlinks in the ancestors only.
+     *
+     * Only the last component of the result is possibly a symlink.
+     */
+    Ancestors,
+
+    /**
+     * Resolve symlinks fully, realpath(3)-style.
+     *
+     * No component of the result will be a symlink.
+     */
+    Full,
+};
+
 /**
  * An abstraction for accessing source files during
  * evaluation. Currently, it's just a wrapper around `CanonPath` that
@@ -103,11 +123,14 @@ struct SourcePath
     bool operator<(const SourcePath & x) const;
 
     /**
-     * Resolve any symlinks in this `SourcePath` (including its
-     * parents). The result is a `SourcePath` in which no element is a
-     * symlink.
+     * Resolve any symlinks in this `SourcePath` according to the
+     * given resolution mode.
+     *
+     * @param mode might only be a temporary solution for this. 
+     * See the discussion in https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9985.
      */
-    SourcePath resolveSymlinks() const;
+    SourcePath resolveSymlinks(
+        SymlinkResolution mode = SymlinkResolution::Full) const;
 };
 
 std::ostream & operator << (std::ostream & str, const SourcePath & path);