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nixGL

A wrapper tool for nix OpenGL application [maintainer=@guibou]

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What it is

A wrapper tool for nix OpenGL application [maintainer=@guibou]

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HN mentions by year9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-10-15 19:28:40 UTC to 2025-04-03 16:31:24 UTC.

0122017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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mikepurvis·Apr 3, 2025
The non-NixOS OpenGL/gpu story is unfortunately tricky as it requires a binary matchup between a userspace library and the kernel driver—which on non-NixOS is unknown to the Nix package manager since it's being managed by whatever the host is. This is arguably a flaw in how Nvidia architected this, but it is what it is. The classical solution is nixGL [1], but this requires downloading special nixified versions of the libraries on every host system kernel change. An alternative option that I was involved in the development of is nix-gl-host [2], which manipulates the LD_LIBRARY_PATH for a Nix executable to allow it to link patched versions of the host's own userspace GL libraries. [1]: https://github.com/nix-community/nixGL [2]: https://github.com/numtide/nix-gl-host
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wesamco·Apr 23, 2024Submission

Ask HN: Are there wrapper/runner programs that encrypt writes and decrypt reads?

Are there any wrapper programs that run a program and make the program transparently encrypt its writes and decrypt its reads? i.e. with the program launched being oblivious to the fact that the file it is reading from and writing to, is in fact encrypted on disk (on top of a file system, what could be an unencrypted file system) I'm specifically interested in being able to run a program with a wrapper program, type a password, and only that process that is started being able to read from and write to the file, transparently (I don't want to use file permissions to limit which processes can read from or write to the file) Oh and by the way, I know disk encryption file systems exist, I use LUKS, not really what I'm asking about. I've done some searches and I was only able to find FUSE filesystems that can transparently encrypt files on top
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of a file system, they work by initializing a directory, to store the encrypted files in, and then mounting that directory to a FUSE filesystem mount point, a mount point where any process can access and read or write (if one doesn't leverage file-system permissions, which is not what I'm looking for) Here's a useful page that talks about and compares these open-source file encryption solutions (gocryptfs, encfs, ecryptfs, cryptomator, securefs, CryFS): https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/comparison/ (https://archive.is/gMwpV) Inspiration to think of using such a program came from reading about NixGL[1], a program that wraps and runs programs (programs installed with Nix on a distro that is not NixOS), to make OpenGL or Vulkan applications able to run and work on distros that are not NixOS, it works like this: $ nixGL program $ nixVulkan program I imagine this program does some things so the program it wraps/runs correctly loads the right graphics driver libraries, something that's not really analogous to changing the behavior of file-system operations (I think). What would it take/require to change the behavior of file-system operations/syscalls/APIs in a program (besides recompiling it)? syscalls or APIs like fopen(), write(), fsync(), fflush(), fclose(), FlushFileBuffers() (on Windows). How can a program accomplish this? by using/doing something like virtualization? emulation? syscall/API translation? e.g. like WINE? [1] https://github.com/nix-community/nixGL
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kaba0·Jun 2, 2021
Yeah, I’m not sure how up-to-date my knowledge is, but opengl and the like are exceptions to the usual deterministic handling of dependencies on non-NixOS distros (not because it is unable to do so, I think it is mainly to avoid storing everything n-times with nvidia/amd), and one has to specify them. It was quite a time I ran nix on a non-nixos distro but there is this tool https://github.com/guibou/nixGL that meant to solve the issue of graphical programs.
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