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Robert Hensing c3b942e0fc Don't hold interruptCallbacks lock during interrupt handling This changes the representation of the interrupt callback list to be safe to use during interrupt handling. Holding a lock while executing arbitrary functions is something to avoid in general, because of the risk of deadlock. Such a deadlock occurs in https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3294 where ~CurlDownloader tries to deregister its interrupt callback. This happens during what seems to be a triggerInterrupt() by the daemon connection's MonitorFdHup thread. This bit I can not confirm based on the stack trace though; it's based on reading the code, so no absolute certainty, but a smoking gun nonetheless.		2022-02-06 13:53:28 +01:00
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README.md

Nix

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.

Installation

On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Nix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):

$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

Information on additional installation methods is available on the Nix download page.

Building And Developing

See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to build nix from source with nix-build or how to get a development environment.

Additional Resources

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.