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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-09-11 21:25:58 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-09-12 00:14:52 +0200
commit095f4deb4b78c45ab284e47c1f427f9812b5a67b (patch)
tree83e27f39720566ae9a8cde402b71c59b71f16e76 /gnu/build
parentf489668723113b0802b81c1e7fc2d9d2932961c3 (diff)
activation: Factorize the link-or-copy trick.
* gnu/build/activation.scm (link-or-copy): New procedure. (activate-setuid-programs): Use it.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/build')
-rw-r--r--gnu/build/activation.scm19
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/build/activation.scm b/gnu/build/activation.scm
index 362669cbf9..d17bb7943f 100644
--- a/gnu/build/activation.scm
+++ b/gnu/build/activation.scm
@@ -175,19 +175,24 @@ numeric gid or #f."
;; Place where setuid programs are stored.
"/run/setuid-programs")
+(define (link-or-copy source target)
+ "Attempt to make TARGET a hard link to SOURCE; if it fails, fall back to
+copy SOURCE to TARGET."
+ (catch 'system-error
+ (lambda ()
+ (link source target))
+ (lambda args
+ ;; Perhaps SOURCE and TARGET live in a different file system, so copy
+ ;; SOURCE.
+ (copy-file source target))))
+
(define (activate-setuid-programs programs)
"Turn PROGRAMS, a list of file names, into setuid programs stored under
%SETUID-DIRECTORY."
(define (make-setuid-program prog)
(let ((target (string-append %setuid-directory
"/" (basename prog))))
- (catch 'system-error
- (lambda ()
- (link prog target))
- (lambda args
- ;; Perhaps PROG and TARGET live in a different file system, so copy
- ;; PROG.
- (copy-file prog target)))
+ (link-or-copy prog target)
(chown target 0 0)
(chmod target #o6555)))