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authorBrennan Vincent <brennan@umanwizard.com>2024-09-23 07:21:07 -0400
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2024-11-17 23:15:49 +0100
commitcf10268a7783207aec30e0169b61362df0d2512d (patch)
tree070e7e174d18ce66c55ee3b562fe54f76036ed2e /nix
parentb2458247194a54c251618a0b9e8be26558ecfd41 (diff)
downloadguix-cf10268a7783207aec30e0169b61362df0d2512d.tar.gz
daemon: Improve error message in ‘checkStoreName’.
* nix/libstore/store-api.cc (checkStoreName): Clarify message when NAME
starts with a dot.

Change-Id: I045a663bc6cd9844677c65b38a31d3941cf212b5
Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'nix')
-rw-r--r--nix/libstore/store-api.cc2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/nix/libstore/store-api.cc b/nix/libstore/store-api.cc
index 781fb9e693..38a1403a71 100644
--- a/nix/libstore/store-api.cc
+++ b/nix/libstore/store-api.cc
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ void checkStoreName(const string & name)
     /* Disallow names starting with a dot for possible security
        reasons (e.g., "." and ".."). */
     if (string(name, 0, 1) == ".")
-        throw Error(format("invalid name: `%1%'") % name);
+        throw Error(format("invalid name: `%1%' (can't begin with dot)") % name);
     foreach (string::const_iterator, i, name)
         if (!((*i >= 'A' && *i <= 'Z') ||
               (*i >= 'a' && *i <= 'z') ||