From fb79e6a7a1cf8f644c88ee1947f42e822bb91bf8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergei Zimmerman <sergei@zimmerman.foo>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2025 03:00:45 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] libutil: Propagate error code in createSymlink

(cherry picked from commit bf7c53f2d3e665720c371167b8934d50e818656b)
---
 src/libutil/file-system.cc | 9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/libutil/file-system.cc b/src/libutil/file-system.cc
index fba92dc8e..5cd702193 100644
--- a/src/libutil/file-system.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/file-system.cc
@@ -730,11 +730,10 @@ Path makeTempPath(const Path & root, const Path & suffix)
 
 void createSymlink(const Path & target, const Path & link)
 {
-    try {
-        std::filesystem::create_symlink(target, link);
-    } catch (std::filesystem::filesystem_error & e) {
-        throw SysError("creating symlink '%1%' -> '%2%'", link, target);
-    }
+    std::error_code ec;
+    std::filesystem::create_symlink(target, link, ec);
+    if (ec)
+        throw SysError(ec.value(), "creating symlink '%1%' -> '%2%'", link, target);
 }
 
 void replaceSymlink(const std::filesystem::path & target, const std::filesystem::path & link)