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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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