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authorEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2018-03-27T21·12+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2018-05-30T11·34+0200
commit08ec757726e5ef47e71bf16ed0b252b288bcf0f3 (patch)
tree7a9fc6b077d694620052522ae45cc274b09e0096 /src/libutil/util.hh
parent81ea8bd5ceb3dcae6af0b79c81a39ecbf2ba97a8 (diff)
Make LocalBinaryCacheStore::narFromPath() run in constant memory
This reduces memory consumption of

  nix copy --from file://... --to ~/my-nix /nix/store/95cwv4q54dc6giaqv6q6p4r02ia2km35-blender-2.79

from 514 MiB to 18 MiB for an uncompressed binary cache, and from 192
MiB to 53 MiB for a bzipped binary cache. It may also be faster
because fetching can happen concurrently with decompression/writing.

Continuation of 48662d151bdf4a38670897beacea9d1bd750376a.

Issue https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/1681.
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diff --git a/src/libutil/util.hh b/src/libutil/util.hh
index 215c7cecafef..af97b76d90bc 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.hh
+++ b/src/libutil/util.hh
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ unsigned char getFileType(const Path & path);
 /* Read the contents of a file into a string. */
 string readFile(int fd);
 string readFile(const Path & path, bool drain = false);
+void readFile(const Path & path, Sink & sink);
 
 /* Write a string to a file. */
 void writeFile(const Path & path, const string & s, mode_t mode = 0666);