7 commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Eelco Dolstra	3a48282b06	* Buffer writes in FdSink. This significantly reduces the number of ... system calls / context switches when dumping a NAR and in the worker protocol.	2011-12-14 23:30:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra	77d272623f	* NAR archives: handle files larger than 2^32 bytes. Previously it ... would just silently store only (fileSize % 2^32) bytes. * Use posix_fallocate if available when unpacking archives. * Provide a better error message when trying to unpack something that isn't a NAR archive.	2009-03-22 17:36:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra	a72709afd8	* Some refactoring: put the GC options / results in separate structs. ... * The garbage collector now also prints the number of blocks freed.	2008-06-18 09:34:17 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra	bd955e15e1	* GCC 4.3.0 (Fedora 9) compatibility fixes. Reported by Gour and ... Armijn Hemel.	2008-05-21 11:17:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra	0130ef88ea	* Daemon mode (`nix-worker --daemon'). Clients connect to the server ... via the Unix domain socket in /nix/var/nix/daemon.socket. The server forks a worker process per connection. * readString(): use the heap, not the stack. * Some protocol fixes.	2006-12-04 17:17:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra	0565b5f2b3	* More remote operations. ... * Added new operation hasSubstitutes(), which is more efficient than querySubstitutes().size() > 0.	2006-11-30 22:43:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra	40b3f64b55	* Skeleton of the privileged worker program. ... * Some refactoring: put the NAR archive integer/string serialisation code in a separate file so it can be reused by the worker protocol implementation.	2006-11-30 19:19:59 +00:00