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because Berkeley DB needed it on some platforms, but we don't use
BDB anymore.
On FreeBSD, if you link against pthreads, then the main thread gets
a 2 MB stack which cannot be overriden (it ignores "ulimit -s"):
http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org/msg62445.html
This is not enough for Nix. For instance, the garbage collector can
fail if there is a pathologically deep chain of references
(http://hydra.nixos.org/build/556199). 2 MB is also not enough for
many Nix expressions.
Arguably the garbage collector shouldn't use recursion, because in
NixOS unprivileged users can DOS the garbage collector by creating a
sufficiently deeply nested chain of references. But getting rid of
recursion is a bit harder.
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Nix is a purely functional package manager. For installation and usage instructions, please read the manual, which can be found in `docs/manual/manual.html', and additionally at the Nix website at <http://nixos.org/>. Acknowledgments This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.OpenSSL.org/).