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| author | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2003-06-27T13·55+0000 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2003-06-27T13·55+0000 |
| commit | 3da9687854e029e9df3b612fd592d2d5a622bb20 (patch) | |
| tree | 4b51f62373c134bb80ff5aac51ffe613eef755e6 /src/globals.hh | |
| parent | bb03c45ca03e038c8b74fc1410f48d02ade4c59b (diff) | |
* Realisation of File(...) expressions.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/globals.hh')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/globals.hh | 21 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/src/globals.hh b/src/globals.hh index b81a787147c3..3cb231ee20cb 100644 --- a/src/globals.hh +++ b/src/globals.hh @@ -8,15 +8,10 @@ using namespace std; /* Database names. */ -/* dbRefs :: Hash -> FileName - - Maintains a mapping from hashes to filenames within the NixValues - directory. This mapping is for performance only; it can be - reconstructed unambiguously. The reason is that names in this - directory are not printed hashes but also might carry some - descriptive element (e.g., "aterm-2.0-ae749a..."). Without this - mapping, looking up a value would take O(n) time because we would - need to read the entire directory. */ +/* dbRefs :: Hash -> Path + + Maintains a mapping from hashes to paths. This is what we use to + resolve CHash(hash) content descriptors. */ extern string dbRefs; /* dbNFs :: Hash -> Hash @@ -45,11 +40,11 @@ extern string dbNetSources; /* Path names. */ -/* nixValues is the directory where all Nix values (both files and - directories, and both normal and non-normal forms) live. */ -extern string nixValues; +/* nixStore is the directory where we generally store atomic and + derived files. */ +extern string nixStore; -/* nixLogDir is the directory where we log evaluations. */ +/* nixLogDir is the directory where we log various operations. */ extern string nixLogDir; /* nixDB is the file name of the Berkeley DB database where we |