8101e7a45f
This moves the daemon protocol reference to the "Reference" section in
our new docs.
It also updates them a bit, we now use `{{< relref "path/to/file.md" >}}`
to refer to other files, and fixes the (previously broken) references
in handshake.md.
Change-Id: I114e40622dc504e7a5f75946895900e797a1e722
Reviewed-on: https://cl.snix.dev/c/snix/+/30273
Autosubmit: Florian Klink <flokli@flokli.de>
Tested-by: besadii
Reviewed-by: Brian Olsen <brian@maven-group.org>
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title: Intro
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slug: Intro
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description: ""
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summary: ""
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date: 2025-03-24T13:10:37+02:00
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lastmod: 2025-03-24T13:10:37+02:00
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draft: false
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weight: 50
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toc: true
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---
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The Nix Daemon protocol is what's used to communicate with the `nix-daemon`,
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either on the local system (in which case the communication happens via a Unix
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domain socket), or with a remote Nix (in which this is tunneled over SSH).
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It uses a custom binary format which isn't too documented. This reference here
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aims to serve as an in-depth documentation about some of the inner workings,
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data types etc.
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A first implementation of this exists in
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[griff/Nix.rs](https://github.com/griff/Nix.rs/tree/main).
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Work is underway to port / factor this out into reusable building blocks into
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the [nix-compat](https://snix.dev//rustdoc/nix_compat/index.html) crate.
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