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authorEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2018-03-21T21·56+0100
committerEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2018-03-21T22·10+0100
commit47f7e5585bbb9a6acfaddda7327ba4eeb5b662c2 (patch)
tree9ef9057da8d91c8178f54161841bcc76d52ab7c1 /src/libutil/archive.hh
parent92dfc223272083061d0c02d35efcad0a8bb9ba4d (diff)
Make 'nix copy --from ssh://...' run in constant memory
For instance, this reduced the memory consumption of

  $ nix copy --from ssh://localhost --to ~/my-nix /nix/store/1n7x0yv8vq6zi90hfmian84vdhd04bgp-blender-2.79a

from 632 MiB to 16 MiB.
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diff --git a/src/libutil/archive.hh b/src/libutil/archive.hh
index 8a15e849c7..7a0e688e42 100644
--- a/src/libutil/archive.hh
+++ b/src/libutil/archive.hh
@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ void parseDump(ParseSink & sink, Source & source);
 
 void restorePath(const Path & path, Source & source);
 
+/* Read a NAR from 'source' and write it to 'sink'. */
+void copyNAR(Source & source, Sink & sink);
+
 
 // FIXME: global variables are bad m'kay.
 extern bool useCaseHack;