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| -rw-r--r-- | tvix/docs/src/nix-daemon/index.md | 15 |
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diff --git a/tvix/docs/src/SUMMARY.md b/tvix/docs/src/SUMMARY.md index 954abae338ba..5ae1647e4125 100644 --- a/tvix/docs/src/SUMMARY.md +++ b/tvix/docs/src/SUMMARY.md @@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ - [Specification of the Nix Language](./language-spec.md) - [Nix language version history](./lang-version.md) - [Value Pointer Equality](./value-pointer-equality.md) -- [Daemon protocol changelog](./nix-daemon/changelog.md) -- [Daemon protocol logging](./nix-daemon/logging.md) -- [Daemon protocol operations](./nix-daemon/operations.md) -- [Daemon protocol serialization](./nix-daemon/serialization.md) \ No newline at end of file +- [Daemon Protocol](./nix-daemon/index.md) + - [Changelog](./nix-daemon/changelog.md) + - [Logging](./nix-daemon/logging.md) + - [Operations](./nix-daemon/operations.md) + - [Serialization](./nix-daemon/serialization.md) 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. |