From dadc4a42c69669c460ed77a5f7a8199f4b0fb7de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Th=C3=A9ophane=20Hufschmitt?=
 <theophane.hufschmitt@tweag.io>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 10:20:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Make the gc socket path configurable

---
 src/libstore/gc.cc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/libstore/gc.cc b/src/libstore/gc.cc
index 14b559c1e..8ed65d4f5 100644
--- a/src/libstore/gc.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/gc.cc
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ Roots LocalStore::findRoots(bool censor)
     closeOnExec(fd.get());
 
     // FIXME: Don’t hardcode
-    string socketPath = "/nix/var/nix/gc-socket/socket";
+    string socketPath = getEnv("NIX_GC_SOCKET_PATH").value_or("/nix/var/nix/gc-socket/socket");
 
     struct sockaddr_un addr;
     addr.sun_family = AF_UNIX;