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| author | Florian Klink <flokli@flokli.de> | 2024-06-13T18·55+0300 |
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| committer | clbot <clbot@tvl.fyi> | 2024-06-13T19·23+0000 |
| commit | c30fded8807e333b1037cf3170bdb3bfe7b6eecc (patch) | |
| tree | afa4fd2bfd6bde9153e91f681ed5b4dc6d9b9aea | |
| parent | d947f61d36b95fbed1014e5dc3f1e86684e1d78c (diff) | |
chore(tvix/docs): move daemon protocol to its own chapter r/8264
… and add an introductionary page at the root. Change-Id: I89ce69a4221c332b7c0d99ac26b4e26bfd248341 Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/11806 Autosubmit: flokli <flokli@flokli.de> Tested-by: BuildkiteCI Reviewed-by: Brian Olsen <me@griff.name>
| -rw-r--r-- | tvix/docs/src/SUMMARY.md | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tvix/docs/src/nix-daemon/index.md | 15 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tvix/docs/src/SUMMARY.md b/tvix/docs/src/SUMMARY.md index 954abae338ba..5ae1647e4125 100644 --- a/tvix/docs/src/SUMMARY.md +++ b/tvix/docs/src/SUMMARY.md @@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ - [Specification of the Nix Language](./language-spec.md) - [Nix language version history](./lang-version.md) - [Value Pointer Equality](./value-pointer-equality.md) -- [Daemon protocol changelog](./nix-daemon/changelog.md) -- [Daemon protocol logging](./nix-daemon/logging.md) -- [Daemon protocol operations](./nix-daemon/operations.md) -- [Daemon protocol serialization](./nix-daemon/serialization.md) \ No newline at end of file +- [Daemon Protocol](./nix-daemon/index.md) + - [Changelog](./nix-daemon/changelog.md) + - [Logging](./nix-daemon/logging.md) + - [Operations](./nix-daemon/operations.md) + - [Serialization](./nix-daemon/serialization.md) diff --git a/tvix/docs/src/nix-daemon/index.md b/tvix/docs/src/nix-daemon/index.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..e47c20151e0d --- /dev/null +++ b/tvix/docs/src/nix-daemon/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +# Nix Daemon Protocol + +The Nix Daemon protocol is what's used to communicate with the `nix-daemon`, +either on the local system (in which case the communication happens via a Unix +domain socket), or with a remote Nix (in which this is tunneled over SSH). + +It uses a custom binary format which isn't too documented. The subpages here +collect serve as an in-depth detail about some of the inner workings, data types +etc. + +A first implementation of this exists in +[griff/Nix.rs](https://github.com/griff/Nix.rs/tree/main). + +Work is underway to port / factor this out into reusable building blocks into +the [nix-compat] crate. |