This improves the error message of nix-env -qa, among others, which
is crucial for understanding some ofborg eval error reports, such as
https://gist.github.com/GrahamcOfBorg/89101ca9c2c855d288178f1d3c78efef
After this change, it will report the same trace, but also start with
```
error:
… while evaluating the attribute 'devShellTools'
… while evaluating the attribute 'nixos'
… while evaluating the attribute 'docker-tools-nix-shell'
… while evaluating the attribute 'aarch64-darwin'
… from call site
at /home/user/h/nixpkgs/outpaths.nix:48:6:
47| tweak = lib.mapAttrs
48| (name: val:
| ^
49| if name == "recurseForDerivations" then true
<same>
```
The recent fix for CVE-2024-38531 broke the sandbox on macOS
completely. As it’s not practical to use `chroot(2)` on
macOS, the build takes place in the main filesystem tree, and the
world‐unreadable wrapper directory prevents the build from accessing
its `$TMPDIR` at all.
The macOS sandbox probably shouldn’t be treated as any kind of a
security boundary in its current state, but this specific vulnerability
wasn’t possible to exploit on macOS anyway, as creating `set{u,g}id`
binaries is blocked by sandbox policy.
Locking down the build sandbox further may be a good idea in future,
but it already has significant compatibility issues. For now, restore
the previous status quo on macOS.
Thanks to @alois31 for helping me come to a better understanding of
the vulnerability.
Fixes: 1d3696f0fbCloses: #11002
- use the iterator in `CanonPath` to count `level`
- use the `CanonPath::basename` method
- use `CanonPath::root` instead of `CanonPath{""}`
- remove `Path` and `PathView`, use `std::filesystem::path` directly
move together all syntactic and semantic information into one
page, and add a page on data types, which in turn links to the syntax and
semantics.
also split out the note on scoping rules into its own page.
Co-authored-by: Ryan Hendrickson <ryan.hendrickson@alum.mit.edu>
Inspired by
010ff57ebb
From the original PR:
> We do not have any of these warnings appearing at the moment, but
> it seems like a good idea to enable [[nodiscard]] checking anyway.
> Once we start introducing more functions with must-use conditions we will
> need such checking, and the rust stdlib has proven them very useful.
GitHub Actions seems to have magically switched architectures
without changing their identifiers.
See 2813ee66cb/README.md (available-images)
Maybe they have more complete documentation elsewhere, but it
seems to be incapable of selecting a runner based on architecture.
* doc: fix `directory` definition in nix-archive.md
Before the change the document implied that directory of a single entry
contained entry:
"type" "directory" "type" directory" "entry" ...
After the change document should expand into:
"type" "directory" "entry" ...
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
The code that counts the number of elided attrs incorrectly used the
per-printer "global" attribute counter instead of a counter that
was relevant only to the current attribute set.
This bug flew under the radar because often the attribute sets aren't
nested, not big enough, or we wouldn't pay attention to the numbers.
I've noticed the issue because the difference underflowed.
Although this behavior is tested by the functional test
lang/eval-fail-bad-string-interpolation-4.nix, the underflow slipped
through review. A simpler reproducer would be as follows, but I
haven't added it to the test suite to keep it simple and marginally
faster.
```
$ nix run nix/2.23.1 -- eval --expr '"" + (let v = { a = { a = 1; b = 2; c = 1; d = 1; e = 1; f = 1; g = 1; h = 1; }; b = { a = 1; b = 1; c = 1; }; }; in builtins.deepSeq v v)'
error:
… while evaluating a path segment
at «string»:1:6:
1| "" + (let v = { a = { a = 1; b = 2; c = 1; d = 1; e = 1; f = 1; g = 1; h = 1; }; b = { a = 1; b = 1; c = 1; }; }; in builtins.deepSeq v v)
| ^
error: cannot coerce a set to a string: { a = { a = 1; b = 2; c = 1; d = 1; e = 1; f = 1; g = 1; h = 1; }; b = { a = 1; «4294967289 attributes elided» }; }
```
* string interpolation escape example
Make it easier to find the documentation, and the example might be enough for most cases.
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
