From 72e80c59b5176eb08986247ec0f1978d32993364 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Bauer <mjbauer95@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 13:42:12 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?Don=E2=80=99t=20hardlink=20disallowed=20paths?=
 =?UTF-8?q?=20in=20OS=20X.?=
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Fixes #1443
---
 src/libstore/optimise-store.cc | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/libstore/optimise-store.cc b/src/libstore/optimise-store.cc
index 56167c4df..9e651ebea 100644
--- a/src/libstore/optimise-store.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/optimise-store.cc
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
+#include <regex>
 
 
 namespace nix {
@@ -96,6 +97,19 @@ void LocalStore::optimisePath_(OptimiseStats & stats, const Path & path, InodeHa
     if (lstat(path.c_str(), &st))
         throw SysError(format("getting attributes of path ‘%1%’") % path);
 
+#if __APPLE__
+    /* HFS/OS X has some undocumented security feature disabling hardlinking for
+       special files within .app dirs. *.app/Contents/PkgInfo and
+       *.app/Contents/Resources/\*.lproj seem to be the only paths affected. See
+       https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/1443 for more discussion. */
+
+    if (std::regex_search(path, std::regex("\\.app/Contents/PkgInfo$")) ||
+        std::regex_search(path, std::regex("\\.app/Contents/Resources/.+\\.lproj$"))) {
+        debug(format("‘%1%’ is not allowed to be linked in OS X") % path);
+        return;
+    }
+#endif
+
     if (S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) {
         Strings names = readDirectoryIgnoringInodes(path, inodeHash);
         for (auto & i : names)