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diff --git a/tvix/docs/src/nix-daemon/index.md b/tvix/docs/src/nix-daemon/index.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..e47c20151e0d --- /dev/null +++ b/tvix/docs/src/nix-daemon/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +# Nix Daemon Protocol + +The Nix Daemon protocol is what's used to communicate with the `nix-daemon`, +either on the local system (in which case the communication happens via a Unix +domain socket), or with a remote Nix (in which this is tunneled over SSH). + +It uses a custom binary format which isn't too documented. The subpages here +collect serve as an in-depth detail about some of the inner workings, data types +etc. + +A first implementation of this exists in +[griff/Nix.rs](https://github.com/griff/Nix.rs/tree/main). + +Work is underway to port / factor this out into reusable building blocks into +the [nix-compat] crate. |