Add plugins to make Nix more extensible.

All plugins in plugin-files will be dlopened, allowing them to
statically construct instances of the various Register* types Nix
supports.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libstore/globals.hh b/src/libstore/globals.hh
index 20ac8fe4e9ae..508084d08acb 100644
--- a/src/libstore/globals.hh
+++ b/src/libstore/globals.hh
@@ -367,12 +367,19 @@ public:
 
     Setting<Strings> allowedUris{this, {}, "allowed-uris",
         "Prefixes of URIs that builtin functions such as fetchurl and fetchGit are allowed to fetch."};
+
+    Setting<Paths> pluginFiles{this, {}, "plugin-files",
+        "Plugins to dynamically load at nix initialization time."};
 };
 
 
 // FIXME: don't use a global variable.
 extern Settings settings;
 
+/* This should be called after settings are initialized, but before
+   anything else */
+void initPlugins();
+
 
 extern const string nixVersion;