Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into flakes

contrib/stack-collapse.py

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
+#!nix-shell -i python3 -p python3 --pure
+
+# To be used with `--trace-function-calls` and `-vvvv` and
+# `flamegraph.pl`.
+#
+# For example:
+#
+# nix-instantiate --trace-function-calls -vvvv '<nixpkgs>' -A hello 2> nix-function-calls.trace
+# ./contrib/stack-collapse.py nix-function-calls.trace > nix-function-calls.folded
+# nix-shell -p flamegraph --run "flamegraph.pl nix-function-calls.folded > nix-function-calls.svg"
+
+import sys
+from pprint import pprint
+import fileinput
+
+stack = []
+timestack = []
+
+for line in fileinput.input():
+    components = line.strip().split(" ", 2)
+    if components[0] != "function-trace":
+        continue
+
+    direction = components[1]
+    components = components[2].rsplit(" ", 2)
+
+    loc = components[0]
+    _at = components[1]
+    time = int(components[2])
+
+    if direction == "entered":
+        stack.append(loc)
+        timestack.append(time)
+    elif direction == "exited":
+        dur = time - timestack.pop()
+        vst = ";".join(stack)
+        print(f"{vst} {dur}")
+        stack.pop()

doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml

@@ -873,6 +873,14 @@ password <replaceable>my-password</replaceable>
 
   </varlistentry>
 
+  <varlistentry xml:id="conf-stalled-download-timeout"><term><literal>stalled-download-timeout</literal></term>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>The timeout (in seconds) for receiving data from servers
+      during download. Nix cancels idle downloads after this timeout's
+      duration.</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+
   <varlistentry xml:id="conf-substituters"><term><literal>substituters</literal></term>
 
     <listitem><para>A list of URLs of substituters, separated by
@@ -973,6 +981,34 @@ requiredSystemFeatures = [ "kvm" ];
 
   </varlistentry>
 
+  <varlistentry xml:id="conf-trace-function-calls"><term><literal>trace-function-calls</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem>
+
+      <para>Default: <literal>false</literal>.</para>
+
+      <para>If set to <literal>true</literal>, the Nix evaluator will
+      trace every function call. Nix will print a log message at the
+      "vomit" level for every function entrance and function exit.</para>
+
+      <informalexample><screen>
+function-trace entered undefined position at 1565795816999559622
+function-trace exited undefined position at 1565795816999581277
+function-trace entered /nix/store/.../example.nix:226:41 at 1565795253249935150
+function-trace exited /nix/store/.../example.nix:226:41 at 1565795253249941684
+</screen></informalexample>
+
+      <para>The <literal>undefined position</literal> means the function
+      call is a builtin.</para>
+
+      <para>Use the <literal>contrib/stack-collapse.py</literal> script
+      distributed with the Nix source code to convert the trace logs
+      in to a format suitable for <command>flamegraph.pl</command>.</para>
+
+    </listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
   <varlistentry xml:id="conf-trusted-public-keys"><term><literal>trusted-public-keys</literal></term>
 
     <listitem><para>A whitespace-separated list of public keys. When

doc/manual/command-ref/nix-env.xml

@@ -221,31 +221,53 @@ also <xref linkend="sec-common-options" />.</phrase></para>
 
   <varlistentry><term><filename>~/.nix-defexpr</filename></term>
 
-    <listitem><para>A directory that contains the default Nix
+    <listitem><para>The source for the default Nix
     expressions used by the <option>--install</option>,
     <option>--upgrade</option>, and <option>--query
-    --available</option> operations to obtain derivations.  The
+    --available</option> operations to obtain derivations. The
     <option>--file</option> option may be used to override this
     default.</para>
 
-    <para>The Nix expressions in this directory are combined into a
+    <para>If <filename>~/.nix-defexpr</filename> is a file,
-    single set, with each file as an attribute that has the name of
+    it is loaded as a Nix expression. If the expression
-    the file.  Thus, if <filename>~/.nix-defexpr</filename> contains
+    is a set, it is used as the default Nix expression.
-    two files, <filename>foo</filename> and <filename>bar</filename>,
+    If the expression is a function, an empty set is passed
+    as argument and the return value is used as
+    the default Nix expression.</para>
+
+    <para>If <filename>~/.nix-defexpr</filename> is a directory
+    containing a <filename>default.nix</filename> file, that file
+    is loaded as in the above paragraph.</para>
+
+    <para>If <filename>~/.nix-defexpr</filename> is a directory without
+    a <filename>default.nix</filename> file, then its contents
+    (both files and subdirectories) are loaded as Nix expressions.
+    The expressions are combined into a single set, each expression
+    under an attribute with the same name as the original file
+    or subdirectory.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>For example, if <filename>~/.nix-defexpr</filename> contains
+    two files, <filename>foo.nix</filename> and <filename>bar.nix</filename>,
     then the default Nix expression will essentially be
 
 <programlisting>
 {
-  foo = import ~/.nix-defexpr/foo;
+  foo = import ~/.nix-defexpr/foo.nix;
-  bar = import ~/.nix-defexpr/bar;
+  bar = import ~/.nix-defexpr/bar.nix;
 }</programlisting>
 
     </para>
 
+    <para>The file <filename>manifest.nix</filename> is always ignored.
+    Subdirectories without a <filename>default.nix</filename> file
+    are traversed recursively in search of more Nix expressions,
+    but the names of these intermediate directories are not
+    added to the attribute paths of the default Nix expression.</para>
+
     <para>The command <command>nix-channel</command> places symlinks
     to the downloaded Nix expressions from each subscribed channel in
     this directory.</para>
-
     </listitem>
 
   </varlistentry>
@@ -1348,10 +1370,13 @@ profile.  The generations can be a list of generation numbers, the
 special value <literal>old</literal> to delete all non-current
 generations,  a value such as <literal>30d</literal> to delete all
 generations older than the specified number of days (except for the
-generation that was active at that point in time), or a value such as.
+generation that was active at that point in time), or a value such as
-<literal>+5</literal> to only keep the specified items older than the
+<literal>+5</literal> to keep the last <literal>5</literal> generations
-current generation. Periodically deleting old generations is important
+ignoring any newer than current, e.g., if <literal>30</literal> is the current
-to make garbage collection effective.</para>
+generation <literal>+5</literal> will delete generation <literal>25</literal>
+and all older generations.
+Periodically deleting old generations is important to make garbage collection
+effective.</para>
 
 </refsection>
 

doc/manual/expressions/language-operators.xml

@@ -15,13 +15,16 @@ weakest binding).</para>
   <tgroup cols='3'>
     <thead>
       <row>
+        <entry>Name</entry>
         <entry>Syntax</entry>
         <entry>Associativity</entry>
         <entry>Description</entry>
+        <entry>Precedence</entry>
       </row>
     </thead>
     <tbody>
       <row>
+        <entry>Select</entry>
         <entry><replaceable>e</replaceable> <literal>.</literal>
         <replaceable>attrpath</replaceable>
         [ <literal>or</literal> <replaceable>def</replaceable> ]
@@ -33,19 +36,25 @@ weakest binding).</para>
         dot-separated list of attribute names.)  If the attribute
         doesn’t exist, return <replaceable>def</replaceable> if
         provided, otherwise abort evaluation.</entry>
+        <entry>1</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>Application</entry>
         <entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
         <entry>left</entry>
         <entry>Call function <replaceable>e1</replaceable> with
         argument <replaceable>e2</replaceable>.</entry>
+        <entry>2</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>Arithmetic Negation</entry>
         <entry><literal>-</literal> <replaceable>e</replaceable></entry>
         <entry>none</entry>
         <entry>Arithmetic negation.</entry>
+        <entry>3</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>Has Attribute</entry>
         <entry><replaceable>e</replaceable> <literal>?</literal>
         <replaceable>attrpath</replaceable></entry>
         <entry>none</entry>
@@ -53,34 +62,69 @@ weakest binding).</para>
         the attribute denoted by <replaceable>attrpath</replaceable>;
         return <literal>true</literal> or
         <literal>false</literal>.</entry>
+        <entry>4</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>List Concatenation</entry>
         <entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>++</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
         <entry>right</entry>
         <entry>List concatenation.</entry>
+        <entry>5</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>Multiplication</entry>
         <entry>
           <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>*</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>,
+        </entry>
+        <entry>left</entry>
+        <entry>Arithmetic multiplication.</entry>
+        <entry>6</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry>Division</entry>
+        <entry>
           <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>/</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
         </entry>
         <entry>left</entry>
-        <entry>Arithmetic multiplication and division.</entry>
+        <entry>Arithmetic division.</entry>
+        <entry>6</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>Addition</entry>
+        <entry>
+          <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>+</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
+        </entry>
+        <entry>left</entry>
+        <entry>Arithmetic addition.</entry>
+        <entry>7</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry>Subtraction</entry>
         <entry>
-          <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>+</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>,
           <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>-</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
         </entry>
         <entry>left</entry>
-        <entry>Arithmetic addition and subtraction.  String or path concatenation (only by <literal>+</literal>).</entry>
+        <entry>Arithmetic subtraction.</entry>
+        <entry>7</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>String Concatenation</entry>
+        <entry>
+          <replaceable>string1</replaceable> <literal>+</literal> <replaceable>string2</replaceable>
+        </entry>
+        <entry>left</entry>
+        <entry>String concatenation.</entry>
+        <entry>7</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry>Not</entry>
         <entry><literal>!</literal> <replaceable>e</replaceable></entry>
         <entry>none</entry>
         <entry>Boolean negation.</entry>
+        <entry>8</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>Update</entry>
         <entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>//</literal>
         <replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
         <entry>right</entry>
@@ -89,47 +133,90 @@ weakest binding).</para>
         <replaceable>e2</replaceable> (with the latter taking
         precedence over the former in case of equally named
         attributes).</entry>
+        <entry>9</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>Less Than</entry>
         <entry>
           <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>&lt;</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>,
-          <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>&gt;</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>,
+        </entry>
-          <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>&lt;=</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>,
+        <entry>none</entry>
+        <entry>Arithmetic comparison.</entry>
+        <entry>10</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry>Less Than or Equal To</entry>
+        <entry>
+          <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>&lt;=</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
+        </entry>
+        <entry>none</entry>
+        <entry>Arithmetic comparison.</entry>
+        <entry>10</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry>Greater Than</entry>
+        <entry>
+          <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>&gt;</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
+        </entry>
+        <entry>none</entry>
+        <entry>Arithmetic comparison.</entry>
+        <entry>10</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry>Greater Than or Equal To</entry>
+        <entry>
           <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>&gt;=</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
         </entry>
         <entry>none</entry>
         <entry>Arithmetic comparison.</entry>
+        <entry>10</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>Equality</entry>
+        <entry>
+          <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>==</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
+        </entry>
+        <entry>none</entry>
+        <entry>Equality.</entry>
+        <entry>11</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry>Inequality</entry>
         <entry>
-          <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>==</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>,
           <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>!=</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
         </entry>
         <entry>none</entry>
-        <entry>Equality and inequality.</entry>
+        <entry>Inequality.</entry>
+        <entry>11</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>Logical AND</entry>
         <entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>&amp;&amp;</literal>
         <replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
         <entry>left</entry>
         <entry>Logical AND.</entry>
+        <entry>12</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>Logical OR</entry>
         <entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>||</literal>
         <replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
         <entry>left</entry>
         <entry>Logical OR.</entry>
+        <entry>13</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>Logical Implication</entry>
         <entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>-></literal>
         <replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
         <entry>none</entry>
         <entry>Logical implication (equivalent to
         <literal>!<replaceable>e1</replaceable> ||
         <replaceable>e2</replaceable></literal>).</entry>
+        <entry>14</entry>
       </row>
     </tbody>
   </tgroup>
 </table>
 
-</section>
+</section>

doc/manual/installation/env-variables.xml

@@ -67,5 +67,23 @@ $ sudo launchctl kickstart -k system/org.nixos.nix-daemon
 </screen>
 </section>
 
+<section xml:id="sec-installer-proxy-settings">
+
+<title>Proxy Environment Variables</title>
+
+<para>The Nix installer has special handling for these proxy-related
+environment variables:
+<varname>http_proxy</varname>, <varname>https_proxy</varname>,
+<varname>ftp_proxy</varname>, <varname>no_proxy</varname>,
+<varname>HTTP_PROXY</varname>, <varname>HTTPS_PROXY</varname>,
+<varname>FTP_PROXY</varname>, <varname>NO_PROXY</varname>.
+</para>
+<para>If any of these variables are set when running the Nix installer,
+then the installer will create an override file at
+<filename>/etc/systemd/system/nix-daemon.service.d/override.conf</filename>
+so <command>nix-daemon</command> will use them.
+</para>
+</section>
+
 </section>
 </chapter>

doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2.3.xml

@@ -4,9 +4,23 @@
       version="5.0"
       xml:id="ssec-relnotes-2.3">
 
-<title>Release 2.3 (????-??-??)</title>
+<title>Release 2.3 (2019-08-??)</title>
 
-<para>This release contains the following changes:</para>
+<para>This is primarily a bug fix release. However, it makes some
+incompatible changes:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>Nix now uses BSD file locks instead of POSIX file
+    locks. Since previous releases used POSIX file locks, you should
+    not use Nix 2.2 and previous releases at the same time on a Nix
+    store.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
+
+<para>It also has the following changes:</para>
 
 <itemizedlist>
 
@@ -18,5 +32,62 @@
     already begin with <literal>refs/</literal>.
     </para>
   </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>The installer now enables sandboxing by default on
+    Linux. The <literal>max-jobs</literal> setting now defaults to
+    1.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>New builtin functions:
+    <literal>builtins.isPath</literal>,
+    <literal>builtins.hashFile</literal>.
+    </para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para><command>nix</command>: Add
+    <option>--print-build-logs</option> (<option>-L</option>) flag to
+    print build log output to stderr rather than showing the last log
+    line in the progress bar. To distinguish between concurrent
+    builds, log lines are prefixed by the name of the package.
+    </para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>Builds are now executed in a pseudo-terminal, and the
+    <envar>TERM</envar> evnironment variable is set to
+    <literal>xterm-256color</literal>. This allows many programs
+    (e.g. <command>gcc</command>, <command>clang</command>,
+    <command>cmake</command>) to print colorized log output.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>Add <option>--no-net</option> convenience flag. This flag
+    disables substituters; sets the <literal>tarball-ttl</literal>
+    setting to infinity (ensuring that any previously downloaded files
+    are considered current); and disables retrying downloads and sets
+    the connection timeout to the minimum. This flag is enabled
+    automatically if there are no configured non-loopback network
+    interfaces.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>Add a <literal>post-build-hook</literal> setting to run a
+    program after a build has succeeded.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>Add a <literal>trace-function-calls</literal> setting to log
+    the duration of Nix function calls to stderr.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>On Linux, sandboxing is now disabled by default on systems
+    that don’t have the necessary kernel support.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
 </itemizedlist>
+
 </section>

misc/systemd/nix-daemon.service.in

@@ -7,3 +7,6 @@ ConditionPathIsReadWrite=@localstatedir@/nix/daemon-socket
 [Service]
 ExecStart=@@bindir@/nix-daemon nix-daemon --daemon
 KillMode=process
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target

release.nix

@@ -73,7 +73,12 @@ let
           # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/45462
           ''
             mkdir -p $out/lib
-            cp ${boost}/lib/libboost_context* $out/lib
+            cp -pd ${boost}/lib/{libboost_context*,libboost_thread*,libboost_system*} $out/lib
+            rm -f $out/lib/*.a
+            ${lib.optionalString stdenv.isLinux ''
+              chmod u+w $out/lib/*.so.*
+              patchelf --set-rpath $out/lib:${stdenv.cc.cc.lib}/lib $out/lib/libboost_thread.so.*
+            ''}
           '';
 
         configureFlags = configureFlags ++
@@ -166,10 +171,10 @@ let
           chmod +x $TMPDIR/install-systemd-multi-user.sh
           chmod +x $TMPDIR/install-multi-user
           dir=nix-${version}-${system}
-          fn=$out/$dir.tar.bz2
+          fn=$out/$dir.tar.xz
           mkdir -p $out/nix-support
           echo "file binary-dist $fn" >> $out/nix-support/hydra-build-products
-          tar cvfj $fn \
+          tar cvfJ $fn \
             --owner=0 --group=0 --mode=u+rw,uga+r \
             --absolute-names \
             --hard-dereference \
@@ -302,7 +307,7 @@ let
 
           substitute ${./scripts/install.in} $out/install \
             ${pkgs.lib.concatMapStrings
-              (system: "--replace '@binaryTarball_${system}@' $(nix hash-file --base16 --type sha256 ${binaryTarball.${system}}/*.tar.bz2) ")
+              (system: "--replace '@binaryTarball_${system}@' $(nix hash-file --base16 --type sha256 ${binaryTarball.${system}}/*.tar.xz) ")
               [ "x86_64-linux" "i686-linux" "x86_64-darwin" "aarch64-linux" ]
             } \
             --replace '@nixVersion@' ${build.x86_64-linux.src.version}

scripts/install-multi-user.sh

@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ EOF
         fi
     done
 
-    if [ -d /nix ]; then
+    if [ -d /nix/store ] || [ -d /nix/var ]; then
         failure <<EOF
 There are some relics of a previous installation of Nix at /nix, and
 this scripts assumes Nix is _not_ yet installed. Please delete the old
@@ -758,9 +758,13 @@ main() {
     if [ "$(uname -s)" = "Darwin" ]; then
         # shellcheck source=./install-darwin-multi-user.sh
         . "$EXTRACTED_NIX_PATH/install-darwin-multi-user.sh"
-    elif [ "$(uname -s)" = "Linux" ] && [ -e /run/systemd/system ]; then
+    elif [ "$(uname -s)" = "Linux" ]; then
-        # shellcheck source=./install-systemd-multi-user.sh
+        if [ -e /run/systemd/system ]; then
-        . "$EXTRACTED_NIX_PATH/install-systemd-multi-user.sh"
+            # shellcheck source=./install-systemd-multi-user.sh
+            . "$EXTRACTED_NIX_PATH/install-systemd-multi-user.sh"
+        else
+            failure "Sorry, the multi-user installation requires systemd on Linux (detected using /run/systemd/system)"
+        fi
     else
         failure "Sorry, I don't know what to do on $(uname)"
     fi

scripts/install-systemd-multi-user.sh

@@ -9,6 +9,38 @@ readonly SERVICE_DEST=/etc/systemd/system/nix-daemon.service
 readonly SOCKET_SRC=/lib/systemd/system/nix-daemon.socket
 readonly SOCKET_DEST=/etc/systemd/system/nix-daemon.socket
 
+
+# Path for the systemd override unit file to contain the proxy settings
+readonly SERVICE_OVERRIDE=${SERVICE_DEST}.d/override.conf
+
+create_systemd_override() {
+     header "Configuring proxy for the nix-daemon service"
+    _sudo "create directory for systemd unit override" mkdir -p "$(dirname $SERVICE_OVERRIDE)"
+    cat <<EOF | _sudo "create systemd unit override" tee "$SERVICE_OVERRIDE"
+[Service]
+$1
+EOF
+}
+
+# Gather all non-empty proxy environment variables into a string
+create_systemd_proxy_env() {
+    vars="http_proxy https_proxy ftp_proxy no_proxy HTTP_PROXY HTTPS_PROXY FTP_PROXY NO_PROXY"
+    for v in $vars; do
+        if [ "x${!v:-}" != "x" ]; then
+            echo "Environment=${v}=${!v}"
+        fi
+    done
+}
+
+handle_network_proxy() {
+    # Create a systemd unit override with proxy environment variables
+    # if any proxy environment variables are not empty.
+    PROXY_ENV_STRING=$(create_systemd_proxy_env)
+    if [ -n "${PROXY_ENV_STRING}" ]; then
+        create_systemd_override "${PROXY_ENV_STRING}"
+    fi
+}
+
 poly_validate_assumptions() {
     if [ "$(uname -s)" != "Linux" ]; then
         failure "This script is for use with Linux!"
@@ -47,6 +79,8 @@ poly_configure_nix_daemon_service() {
     _sudo "to set up the nix-daemon socket service" \
           systemctl enable "/nix/var/nix/profiles/default$SOCKET_SRC"
 
+    handle_network_proxy
+
     _sudo "to load the systemd unit for nix-daemon" \
           systemctl daemon-reload
 

scripts/install.in

@@ -30,12 +30,11 @@ case "$(uname -s).$(uname -m)" in
     *) oops "sorry, there is no binary distribution of Nix for your platform";;
 esac
 
-url="https://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-@nixVersion@/nix-@nixVersion@-$system.tar.bz2"
+url="https://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-@nixVersion@/nix-@nixVersion@-$system.tar.xz"
 
-tarball="$tmpDir/$(basename "$tmpDir/nix-@nixVersion@-$system.tar.bz2")"
+tarball="$tmpDir/$(basename "$tmpDir/nix-@nixVersion@-$system.tar.xz")"
 
 require_util curl "download the binary tarball"
-require_util bzcat "decompress the binary tarball"
 require_util tar "unpack the binary tarball"
 
 echo "downloading Nix @nixVersion@ binary tarball for $system from '$url' to '$tmpDir'..."
@@ -57,7 +56,7 @@ fi
 
 unpack=$tmpDir/unpack
 mkdir -p "$unpack"
-< "$tarball" bzcat | tar -xf - -C "$unpack" || oops "failed to unpack '$url'"
+tar -xf "$tarball" -C "$unpack" || oops "failed to unpack '$url'"
 
 script=$(echo "$unpack"/*/install)
 

src/libexpr/eval.cc

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include "flake/flake.hh"
 
 #include <algorithm>
+#include <chrono>
 #include <cstring>
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <sys/time.h>
@@ -17,7 +18,6 @@
 #include <iostream>
 #include <fstream>
 
-#include <sys/time.h>
 #include <sys/resource.h>
 
 #if HAVE_BOEHMGC
@@ -1103,9 +1103,13 @@ void EvalState::callPrimOp(Value & fun, Value & arg, Value & v, const Pos & pos)
     }
 }
 
-
 void EvalState::callFunction(Value & fun, Value & arg, Value & v, const Pos & pos)
 {
+    std::optional<FunctionCallTrace> trace;
+    if (evalSettings.traceFunctionCalls) {
+        trace.emplace(pos);
+    }
+
     forceValue(fun, pos);
 
     if (fun.type == tPrimOp || fun.type == tPrimOpApp) {

src/libexpr/eval.hh

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #include "symbol-table.hh"
 #include "hash.hh"
 #include "config.hh"
+#include "function-trace.hh"
 
 #include <map>
 #include <unordered_map>
@@ -373,6 +374,9 @@ struct EvalSettings : Config
     Setting<Strings> allowedUris{this, {}, "allowed-uris",
         "Prefixes of URIs that builtin functions such as fetchurl and fetchGit are allowed to fetch."};
 
+    Setting<bool> traceFunctionCalls{this, false, "trace-function-calls",
+        "Emit log messages for each function entry and exit at the 'vomit' log level (-vvvv)"};
+
     Setting<std::string> flakeRegistry{this, "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/flake-registry/master/flake-registry.json", "flake-registry",
         "Path or URI of the global flake registry."};
 };

src/libexpr/function-trace.hh

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#pragma once
+
+#include "eval.hh"
+#include <sys/time.h>
+
+namespace nix {
+
+struct FunctionCallTrace
+{
+    const Pos & pos;
+
+    FunctionCallTrace(const Pos & pos) : pos(pos) {
+        auto duration = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now().time_since_epoch();
+        auto ns = std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::nanoseconds>(duration);
+        vomit("function-trace entered %1% at %2%", pos, ns.count());
+    }
+
+    ~FunctionCallTrace() {
+        auto duration = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now().time_since_epoch();
+        auto ns = std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::nanoseconds>(duration);
+        vomit("function-trace exited %1% at %2%", pos, ns.count());
+    }
+};
+}

src/libmain/shared.cc

@@ -125,6 +125,15 @@ void initNix()
     act.sa_handler = sigHandler;
     if (sigaction(SIGUSR1, &act, 0)) throw SysError("handling SIGUSR1");
 
+#if __APPLE__
+    /* HACK: on darwin, we need can’t use sigprocmask with SIGWINCH.
+     * Instead, add a dummy sigaction handler, and signalHandlerThread
+     * can handle the rest. */
+    struct sigaction sa;
+    sa.sa_handler = sigHandler;
+    if (sigaction(SIGWINCH, &sa, 0)) throw SysError("handling SIGWINCH");
+#endif
+
     /* Register a SIGSEGV handler to detect stack overflows. */
     detectStackOverflow();
 

src/libstore/build.cc

@@ -2357,17 +2357,37 @@ void DerivationGoal::startBuilder()
                 flags |= CLONE_NEWNET;
 
             pid_t child = clone(childEntry, stack + stackSize, flags, this);
-            if (child == -1 && errno == EINVAL)
+            if (child == -1 && errno == EINVAL) {
                 /* Fallback for Linux < 2.13 where CLONE_NEWPID and
                    CLONE_PARENT are not allowed together. */
-                child = clone(childEntry, stack + stackSize, flags & ~CLONE_NEWPID, this);
+                flags &= ~CLONE_NEWPID;
+                child = clone(childEntry, stack + stackSize, flags, this);
+            }
+            if (child == -1 && (errno == EPERM || errno == EINVAL)) {
+                /* Some distros patch Linux to not allow unpriveleged
+                 * user namespaces. If we get EPERM or EINVAL, try
+                 * without CLONE_NEWUSER and see if that works.
+                 */
+                flags &= ~CLONE_NEWUSER;
+                child = clone(childEntry, stack + stackSize, flags, this);
+            }
+            /* Otherwise exit with EPERM so we can handle this in the
+               parent. This is only done when sandbox-fallback is set
+               to true (the default). */
+            if (child == -1 && (errno == EPERM || errno == EINVAL) && settings.sandboxFallback)
+                _exit(1);
             if (child == -1) throw SysError("cloning builder process");
 
             writeFull(builderOut.writeSide.get(), std::to_string(child) + "\n");
             _exit(0);
         }, options);
 
-        if (helper.wait() != 0)
+        int res = helper.wait();
+        if (res != 0 && settings.sandboxFallback) {
+            useChroot = false;
+            tmpDirInSandbox = tmpDir;
+            goto fallback;
+        } else if (res != 0)
             throw Error("unable to start build process");
 
         userNamespaceSync.readSide = -1;
@@ -2398,6 +2418,7 @@ void DerivationGoal::startBuilder()
     } else
 #endif
     {
+    fallback:
         options.allowVfork = !buildUser && !drv->isBuiltin();
         pid = startProcess([&]() {
             runChild();

src/libstore/download.cc

@@ -236,8 +236,6 @@ struct CurlDownloader : public Downloader
             return ((DownloadItem *) userp)->readCallback(buffer, size, nitems);
         }
 
-        long lowSpeedTimeout = 300;
-
         void init()
         {
             if (!req) req = curl_easy_init();
@@ -297,7 +295,7 @@ struct CurlDownloader : public Downloader
             curl_easy_setopt(req, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, downloadSettings.connectTimeout.get());
 
             curl_easy_setopt(req, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT, 1L);
-            curl_easy_setopt(req, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME, lowSpeedTimeout);
+            curl_easy_setopt(req, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME, downloadSettings.stalledDownloadTimeout.get());
 
             /* If no file exist in the specified path, curl continues to work
                anyway as if netrc support was disabled. */

src/libstore/download.hh

@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ struct DownloadSettings : Config
     Setting<unsigned long> connectTimeout{this, 0, "connect-timeout",
         "Timeout for connecting to servers during downloads. 0 means use curl's builtin default."};
 
+    Setting<unsigned long> stalledDownloadTimeout{this, 300, "stalled-download-timeout",
+        "Timeout (in seconds) for receiving data from servers during download. Nix cancels idle downloads after this timeout's duration."};
+
     Setting<unsigned int> tries{this, 5, "download-attempts",
         "How often Nix will attempt to download a file before giving up."};
 };

src/libstore/gc.cc

@@ -690,9 +690,8 @@ void LocalStore::removeUnusedLinks(const GCState & state)
             throw SysError(format("statting '%1%'") % path);
 
         if (st.st_nlink != 1) {
-            unsigned long long size = st.st_blocks * 512ULL;
+            actualSize += st.st_size;
-            actualSize += size;
+            unsharedSize += (st.st_nlink - 1) * st.st_size;
-            unsharedSize += (st.st_nlink - 1) * size;
             continue;
         }
 
@@ -701,7 +700,7 @@ void LocalStore::removeUnusedLinks(const GCState & state)
         if (unlink(path.c_str()) == -1)
             throw SysError(format("deleting '%1%'") % path);
 
-        state.results.bytesFreed += st.st_blocks * 512ULL;
+        state.results.bytesFreed += st.st_size;
     }
 
     struct stat st;
@@ -920,11 +919,11 @@ void LocalStore::autoGC(bool sync)
                     promise.set_value();
                 });
 
-                printInfo("running auto-GC to free %d bytes", settings.maxFree - avail);
-
                 GCOptions options;
                 options.maxFreed = settings.maxFree - avail;
 
+                printInfo("running auto-GC to free %d bytes", options.maxFreed);
+
                 GCResults results;
 
                 collectGarbage(options, results);

src/libstore/globals.hh

@@ -209,6 +209,9 @@ public:
         "The paths to make available inside the build sandbox.",
         {"build-chroot-dirs", "build-sandbox-paths"}};
 
+    Setting<bool> sandboxFallback{this, true, "sandbox-fallback",
+        "Whether to disable sandboxing when the kernel doesn't allow it."};
+
     Setting<PathSet> extraSandboxPaths{this, {}, "extra-sandbox-paths",
         "Additional paths to make available inside the build sandbox.",
         {"build-extra-chroot-dirs", "build-extra-sandbox-paths"}};

src/libstore/remote-store.cc

@@ -191,6 +191,13 @@ void RemoteStore::setOptions(Connection & conn)
     if (GET_PROTOCOL_MINOR(conn.daemonVersion) >= 12) {
         std::map<std::string, Config::SettingInfo> overrides;
         globalConfig.getSettings(overrides, true);
+        overrides.erase(settings.keepFailed.name);
+        overrides.erase(settings.keepGoing.name);
+        overrides.erase(settings.tryFallback.name);
+        overrides.erase(settings.maxBuildJobs.name);
+        overrides.erase(settings.maxSilentTime.name);
+        overrides.erase(settings.buildCores.name);
+        overrides.erase(settings.useSubstitutes.name);
         conn.to << overrides.size();
         for (auto & i : overrides)
             conn.to << i.first << i.second.value;

src/libstore/store-api.cc

@@ -97,6 +97,10 @@ void checkStoreName(const string & name)
        reasons (e.g., "." and ".."). */
     if (string(name, 0, 1) == ".")
         throw Error(baseError % "it is illegal to start the name with a period");
+    /* Disallow names longer than 211 characters. ext4’s max is 256,
+       but we need extra space for the hash and .chroot extensions. */
+    if (name.length() > 211)
+        throw Error(baseError % "name must be less than 212 characters");
     for (auto & i : name)
         if (!((i >= 'A' && i <= 'Z') ||
               (i >= 'a' && i <= 'z') ||

src/libutil/serialise.hh

@@ -179,6 +179,36 @@ struct TeeSource : Source
     }
 };
 
+/* A reader that consumes the original Source until 'size'. */
+struct SizedSource : Source
+{
+    Source & orig;
+    size_t remain;
+    SizedSource(Source & orig, size_t size)
+        : orig(orig), remain(size) { }
+    size_t read(unsigned char * data, size_t len)
+    {
+        if (this->remain <= 0) {
+            throw EndOfFile("sized: unexpected end-of-file");
+        }
+        len = std::min(len, this->remain);
+        size_t n = this->orig.read(data, len);
+        this->remain -= n;
+        return n;
+    }
+
+    /* Consume the original source until no remain data is left to consume. */
+    size_t drainAll()
+    {
+        std::vector<unsigned char> buf(8192);
+        size_t sum = 0;
+        while (this->remain > 0) {
+            size_t n = read(buf.data(), buf.size());
+            sum += n;
+        }
+        return sum;
+    }
+};
 
 /* Convert a function into a sink. */
 struct LambdaSink : Sink

src/libutil/util.cc

@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ static void _deletePath(const Path & path, unsigned long long & bytesFreed)
     }
 
     if (!S_ISDIR(st.st_mode) && st.st_nlink == 1)
-        bytesFreed += st.st_blocks * 512;
+        bytesFreed += st.st_size;
 
     if (S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) {
         /* Make the directory accessible. */

src/nix-store/nix-store.cc

@@ -950,8 +950,16 @@ static void opServe(Strings opFlags, Strings opArgs)
                 info.sigs = readStrings<StringSet>(in);
                 in >> info.ca;
 
-                // FIXME: race if addToStore doesn't read source?
+                if (info.narSize == 0) {
-                store->addToStore(info, in, NoRepair, NoCheckSigs);
+                    throw Error("narInfo is too old and missing the narSize field");
+                }
+
+                SizedSource sizedSource(in, info.narSize);
+
+                store->addToStore(info, sizedSource, NoRepair, NoCheckSigs);
+
+                // consume all the data that has been sent before continuing.
+                sizedSource.drainAll();
 
                 out << 1; // indicate success
 

src/nix/run.cc

@@ -255,7 +255,10 @@ void chrootHelper(int argc, char * * argv)
     uid_t gid = getgid();
 
     if (unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNS) == -1)
-        throw SysError("setting up a private mount namespace");
+        /* Try with just CLONE_NEWNS in case user namespaces are
+           specifically disabled. */
+        if (unshare(CLONE_NEWNS) == -1)
+            throw SysError("setting up a private mount namespace");
 
     /* Bind-mount realStoreDir on /nix/store. If the latter mount
        point doesn't already exists, we have to create a chroot

tests/function-trace.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+source common.sh
+
+set +x
+
+expect_trace() {
+    expr="$1"
+    expect="$2"
+    actual=$(
+        nix-instantiate \
+            --trace-function-calls \
+            -vvvv \
+            --expr "$expr" 2>&1 \
+            | grep "function-trace" \
+            | sed -e 's/ [0-9]*$//'
+    );
+
+    echo -n "Tracing expression '$expr'"
+    set +e
+    msg=$(diff -swB \
+               <(echo "$expect") \
+               <(echo "$actual")
+    );
+    result=$?
+    set -e
+    if [ $result -eq 0 ]; then
+        echo " ok."
+    else
+        echo " failed. difference:"
+        echo "$msg"
+        return $result
+    fi
+}
+
+# failure inside a tryEval
+expect_trace 'builtins.tryEval (throw "example")' "
+function-trace entered undefined position at
+function-trace exited undefined position at
+function-trace entered (string):1:1 at
+function-trace entered (string):1:19 at
+function-trace exited (string):1:19 at
+function-trace exited (string):1:1 at
+"
+
+# Missing argument to a formal function
+expect_trace '({ x }: x) { }' "
+function-trace entered undefined position at
+function-trace exited undefined position at
+function-trace entered (string):1:1 at
+function-trace exited (string):1:1 at
+"
+
+# Too many arguments to a formal function
+expect_trace '({ x }: x) { x = "x"; y = "y"; }' "
+function-trace entered undefined position at
+function-trace exited undefined position at
+function-trace entered (string):1:1 at
+function-trace exited (string):1:1 at
+"
+
+# Not enough arguments to a lambda
+expect_trace '(x: y: x + y) 1' "
+function-trace entered undefined position at
+function-trace exited undefined position at
+function-trace entered (string):1:1 at
+function-trace exited (string):1:1 at
+"
+
+# Too many arguments to a lambda
+expect_trace '(x: x) 1 2' "
+function-trace entered undefined position at
+function-trace exited undefined position at
+function-trace entered (string):1:1 at
+function-trace exited (string):1:1 at
+function-trace entered (string):1:1 at
+function-trace exited (string):1:1 at
+"
+
+# Not a function
+expect_trace '1 2' "
+function-trace entered undefined position at
+function-trace exited undefined position at
+function-trace entered (string):1:1 at
+function-trace exited (string):1:1 at
+"
+
+set -e

tests/gc-auto.sh

@@ -2,9 +2,12 @@ source common.sh
 
 clearStore
 
-garbage1=$(nix add-to-store --name garbage1 ./tarball.sh)
+garbage1=$(nix add-to-store --name garbage1 ./nar-access.sh)
-garbage2=$(nix add-to-store --name garbage2 ./tarball.sh)
+garbage2=$(nix add-to-store --name garbage2 ./nar-access.sh)
-garbage3=$(nix add-to-store --name garbage3 ./tarball.sh)
+garbage3=$(nix add-to-store --name garbage3 ./nar-access.sh)
+
+ls -l $garbage3
+POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 du $garbage3
 
 fake_free=$TEST_ROOT/fake-free
 export _NIX_TEST_FREE_SPACE_FILE=$fake_free
@@ -19,7 +22,7 @@ with import ./config.nix; mkDerivation {
     echo foo > \$out/bar
     echo 1...
     sleep 2
-    echo 100 > $fake_free
+    echo 200 > $fake_free
     echo 2...
     sleep 2
     echo 3...
@@ -29,7 +32,7 @@ with import ./config.nix; mkDerivation {
 EOF
 )
 
-nix build --impure -o $TEST_ROOT/result-A -L "($expr)" \
+nix build --impure -v -o $TEST_ROOT/result-A -L "($expr)" \
     --min-free 1000 --max-free 2000 --min-free-check-interval 1 &
 pid=$!
 
@@ -41,7 +44,7 @@ with import ./config.nix; mkDerivation {
     echo foo > \$out/bar
     echo 1...
     sleep 2
-    echo 100 > $fake_free
+    echo 200 > $fake_free
     echo 2...
     sleep 2
     echo 3...
@@ -50,7 +53,7 @@ with import ./config.nix; mkDerivation {
 EOF
 )
 
-nix build --impure -o $TEST_ROOT/result-B -L "($expr2)" \
+nix build --impure -v -o $TEST_ROOT/result-B -L "($expr2)" \
     --min-free 1000 --max-free 2000 --min-free-check-interval 1
 
 wait "$pid"

tests/local.mk

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ nix_tests = \
   search.sh \
   nix-copy-ssh.sh \
   post-hook.sh \
+  function-trace.sh \
   flakes.sh
   # parallel.sh
 

tests/push-to-store.sh

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 echo Pushing "$@" to "$REMOTE_STORE"
-echo -n "$OUT_PATHS" | xargs -d: nix copy --to "$REMOTE_STORE" --no-require-sigs
+printf "%s" "$OUT_PATHS" | xargs -d: nix copy --to "$REMOTE_STORE" --no-require-sigs