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Re:Spectrum OS: a declarative, reproducible, compartmentaliz... by iammisc on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @12:01AM (#28535127)
Nix needs a shell language integrated into nix. Nix should be usable as an os shell. That would make complex scripting so much easier than the weird passasfile bizarreness
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Re:Spectrum OS: a declarative, reproducible, compartmentaliz... by rgoulter on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @03:56AM (#28536468)
What's the "weird passasfile bizarreness"?
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Re:Spectrum OS: a declarative, reproducible, compartmentaliz... by mikepurvis on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @02:28PM (#28542569)
Per https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/#sec-advanced-attributes:

> passAsFile: A list of names of attributes that should be passed via files rather than environment variables.

Looks like it's basically just a hack for envvars that do/might exceed whatever bash's internal limits are for them.

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