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Dynamically allocate UIDs 
Rather than rely on a nixbld group, we now allocate UIDs/GIDs
dynamically starting at a configurable ID (872415232 by default).

Also, we allocate 2^18 UIDs and GIDs per build, and run the build as
root in its UID namespace. (This should not be the default since it
breaks some builds. We probably should enable this conditional on a
requiredSystemFeature.) The goal is to be able to run (NixOS)
containers in a build. However, this will also require some cgroup
initialisation.

The 2^18 UIDs/GIDs is intended to provide enough ID space to run
multiple containers per build, e.g. for distributed NixOS tests.
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README.md

Nix, the purely functional package manager

Nix is a new take on package management that is fairly unique. Because of its purity aspects, a lot of issues found in traditional package managers don't appear with Nix.

To find out more about the tool, usage and installation instructions, please read the manual, which is available on the Nix website at http://nixos.org/nix/manual.

Contributing

Take a look at the Hacking Section of the manual. It helps you to get started with building Nix from source.

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1

This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit.