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2006-07-21* Don't try to do DNS lookups.Eelco Dolstra
2006-07-19* Added a tool to find additional roots for the garbage collector,Eelco Dolstra
such as open files, current directories, mmaped files, etc. This is inherently unportable, but it's easy to adapt this script to other platforms. Currently we call `lsof' and try to read various bits in /proc/NNN. The goal is to prevent the garbage collector from removing store paths that are no longer reachable from a permanent root but that are still in use (for instance, after the user has done "nix-env -e" on a running program).