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diff --git a/src/nix-worker/help.txt b/src/nix-worker/help.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..b4583cb7e495 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/nix-worker/help.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Usage: nix-worker [OPTIONS...] [--daemon | --slave] + +`nix-worker' is a helper program used to implement secure, multi-user +Nix stores. In `--daemon' mode, it goes into the background and waits +for incoming connections on a Unix domain socket, and forks a process +for each connection to perform the Nix store operations requested by +the caller. In `--slave' mode, `nix-worker' is called directly, and +the caller and the worker communicate with each other over +stdin/stdout. In this mode, the `nix-worker' program should have +appropriate setuid privileges. |