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Eelco Dolstra 93a5ef0516
nix run: Fix chroot execution 
Running "nix run" with a diverted store, e.g.

  $ nix run --store local?root=/tmp/nix nixpkgs.hello

stopped working when Nix became multithreaded, because
unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER) doesn't work in multithreaded processes. The
obvious solution is to terminate all other threads first, but 1) there
is no way to terminate Boehm GC marker threads; and 2) it appears that
the kernel has a race where unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER) will still fail for
some indeterminate amount of time after joining other threads.

So instead, "nix run" will now exec() a single-threaded helper ("nix
__run_in_chroot") that performs the actual unshare()/chroot()/exec().
2017-08-29 13:21:07 +02:00
config Add config.guess, config.sub and install-sh 2013-11-25 11:26:02 +00:00
corepkgs <nix/fetchurl.nix>: Support sha512 argument 2017-07-04 14:45:50 +02:00
doc/manual Remove nix-mode.el from Nix. 2017-08-19 21:16:30 -07:00
maintainers Update upload-release script 2017-01-03 11:42:56 +01:00
misc Remove nix-mode.el from Nix. 2017-08-19 21:16:30 -07:00
mk set _GNU_SOURCE on cygwin 2017-04-21 11:27:27 -03:00
perl Replace Unicode quotes in user-facing strings by ASCII 2017-07-30 12:32:45 +01:00
scripts Replace Unicode quotes in user-facing strings by ASCII 2017-07-30 12:32:45 +01:00
src nix run: Fix chroot execution 2017-08-29 13:21:07 +02:00
tests Add builtins.string function. 2017-08-15 20:04:11 +00:00
.dir-locals.el Add .dir-locals.el for Emacs 2016-01-28 11:12:04 +01:00
.editorconfig Add .editorconfig 2017-06-05 22:57:28 +01:00
.gitignore Always use the Darwin sandbox 2017-06-06 18:44:49 +02:00
.travis.yml Test the installer 2017-07-14 12:11:04 -04:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
configure.ac Add a seccomp filter to prevent creating setuid/setgid binaries 2017-05-29 16:14:10 +02:00
COPYING * Change this to LGPL to keep the government happy. 2006-04-25 16:41:06 +00:00
local.mk Allow builders to create activities 2017-08-21 12:18:46 +02:00
Makefile Remove nix-mode.el from Nix. 2017-08-19 21:16:30 -07:00
Makefile.config.in Add --with-sandbox-shell configure flag 2017-05-15 17:36:32 +02:00
nix.spec.in Remove nix-mode.el from Nix. 2017-08-19 21:16:30 -07:00
README.md Fix minor grammatical nitpick ("it's" vs. "its") in README.md. 2017-03-22 10:11:23 -04:00
release-common.nix Only pass --with-sandbox-shell on Linux 2017-05-30 15:56:15 +02:00
release.nix Allow builders to create activities 2017-08-21 12:18:46 +02:00
shell.nix Allow builders to create activities 2017-08-21 12:18:46 +02:00
version Bump 2016-01-20 16:34:37 +01:00

README.md

Nix, the purely functional package manager

Nix is a new take on package management that is fairly unique. Because of its purity aspects, a lot of issues found in traditional package managers don't appear with Nix.

To find out more about the tool, usage and installation instructions, please read the manual, which is available on the Nix website at http://nixos.org/nix/manual.

Contributing

Take a look at the Hacking Section of the manual. It helps you to get started with building Nix from source.

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1

This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit.