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+//! NAR wire format, without I/O details, since those differ between
+//! the synchronous and asynchronous implementations.
+//!
+//! The wire format is an S-expression format, encoded onto the wire
+//! using simple encoding rules.
+//!
+//! # Encoding
+//!
+//! Lengths are represented as 64-bit unsigned integers in little-endian
+//! format. Byte strings, including file contents and syntactic strings
+//! part of the grammar, are prefixed by their 64-bit length, and padded
+//! to 8-byte (64-bit) alignment with zero bytes. The zero-length string
+//! is therefore encoded as eight zero bytes representing its length.
+//!
+//! # Grammar
+//!
+//! The NAR grammar is as follows:
+//! ```plain
+//! archive ::= "nix-archive-1" node
+//!
+//! node ::= "(" "type" "symlink" "target" string ")"
+//!      ||= "(" "type" "regular" ("executable" "")? "contents" string ")"
+//!      ||= "(" "type" "directory" entry* ")"
+//!
+//! entry ::= "entry" "(" "name" string "node" node ")"
+//! ```
+//!
+//! We rewrite it to pull together the purely syntactic elements into
+//! unified tokens, producing an equivalent grammar that can be parsed
+//! and serialized more elegantly:
+//! ```plain
+//! archive ::= TOK_NAR node
+//! node ::= TOK_SYM string             TOK_PAR
+//!      ||= (TOK_REG | TOK_EXE) string TOK_PAR
+//!      ||= TOK_DIR entry*             TOK_PAR
+//!
+//! entry ::= TOK_ENT string TOK_NOD node TOK_PAR
+//!
+//! TOK_NAR ::= "nix-archive-1" "(" "type"
+//! TOK_SYM ::= "symlink" "target"
+//! TOK_REG ::= "regular" "contents"
+//! TOK_EXE ::= "regular" "executable" ""
+//! TOK_DIR ::= "directory"
+//! TOK_ENT ::= "entry" "(" "name"
+//! TOK_NOD ::= "node" "(" "type"
+//! TOK_PAR ::= ")"
+//! ```
+//!
+//! # Restrictions
+//!
+//! NOTE: These restrictions are not (and cannot be) enforced by this module,
+//! but must be enforced by its consumers, [super::reader] and [super::writer].
+//!
+//! Directory entry names cannot have the reserved names `.` and `..`, nor contain
+//! forward slashes. They must appear in strictly ascending lexicographic order
+//! within a directory, and can be at most [MAX_NAME_LEN] bytes in length.
+//!
+//! Symlink targets can be at most [MAX_TARGET_LEN] bytes in length.
+//!
+//! Neither is permitted to be empty, or contain null bytes.
+
+// These values are the standard Linux length limits
+/// Maximum length of a directory entry name
+pub const MAX_NAME_LEN: usize = 255;
+/// Maximum length of a symlink target
+pub const MAX_TARGET_LEN: usize = 4095;
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+fn token(xs: &[&str]) -> Vec<u8> {
+    let mut out = vec![];
+    for x in xs {
+        let len = x.len() as u64;
+        out.extend_from_slice(&len.to_le_bytes());
+        out.extend_from_slice(x.as_bytes());
+
+        let n = x.len() & 7;
+        if n != 0 {
+            const ZERO: [u8; 8] = [0; 8];
+            out.extend_from_slice(&ZERO[n..]);
+        }
+    }
+    out
+}
+
+pub const TOK_NAR: [u8; 56] = *b"\x0d\0\0\0\0\0\0\0nix-archive-1\0\0\0\x01\0\0\0\0\0\0\0(\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\x04\0\0\0\0\0\0\0type\0\0\0\0";
+pub const TOK_SYM: [u8; 32] = *b"\x07\0\0\0\0\0\0\0symlink\0\x06\0\0\0\0\0\0\0target\0\0";
+pub const TOK_REG: [u8; 32] = *b"\x07\0\0\0\0\0\0\0regular\0\x08\0\0\0\0\0\0\0contents";
+pub const TOK_EXE: [u8; 64] = *b"\x07\0\0\0\0\0\0\0regular\0\x0a\0\0\0\0\0\0\0executable\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\x08\0\0\0\0\0\0\0contents";
+pub const TOK_DIR: [u8; 24] = *b"\x09\0\0\0\0\0\0\0directory\0\0\0\0\0\0\0";
+pub const TOK_ENT: [u8; 48] = *b"\x05\0\0\0\0\0\0\0entry\0\0\0\x01\0\0\0\0\0\0\0(\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\x04\0\0\0\0\0\0\0name\0\0\0\0";
+pub const TOK_NOD: [u8; 48] = *b"\x04\0\0\0\0\0\0\0node\0\0\0\0\x01\0\0\0\0\0\0\0(\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\x04\0\0\0\0\0\0\0type\0\0\0\0";
+pub const TOK_PAR: [u8; 16] = *b"\x01\0\0\0\0\0\0\0)\0\0\0\0\0\0\0";
+
+#[test]
+fn tokens() {
+    let cases: &[(&[u8], &[&str])] = &[
+        (&TOK_NAR, &["nix-archive-1", "(", "type"]),
+        (&TOK_SYM, &["symlink", "target"]),
+        (&TOK_REG, &["regular", "contents"]),
+        (&TOK_EXE, &["regular", "executable", "", "contents"]),
+        (&TOK_DIR, &["directory"]),
+        (&TOK_ENT, &["entry", "(", "name"]),
+        (&TOK_NOD, &["node", "(", "type"]),
+        (&TOK_PAR, &[")"]),
+    ];
+
+    for &(tok, xs) in cases {
+        assert_eq!(tok, token(xs));
+    }
+}
+
+pub use tag::Tag;
+mod tag;
+
+tag::make! {
+    /// These are the node tokens, succeeding [TOK_NAR] or [TOK_NOD],
+    /// and preceding the next variable-length element.
+    pub enum Node[16] {
+        Sym = TOK_SYM,
+        Reg = TOK_REG,
+        Exe = TOK_EXE,
+        Dir = TOK_DIR,
+    }
+
+    /// Directory entry or terminator
+    pub enum Entry[0] {
+        /// End of directory
+        None = TOK_PAR,
+        /// Directory entry
+        /// Followed by a name string, [TOK_NOD], and a [Node].
+        Some = TOK_ENT,
+    }
+}