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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 753c3998e5..5f973e2fe1 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -3666,10 +3666,30 @@ accidental modifications. @end quotation The @code{(guix store)} module provides procedures to connect to the -daemon, and to perform RPCs. These are described below. +daemon, and to perform RPCs. These are described below. By default, +@code{open-connection}, and thus all the @command{guix} commands, +connect to the local daemon or to the URI specified by the +@code{GUIX_DAEMON_SOCKET} environment variable. -@deffn {Scheme Procedure} open-connection [@var{file}] [#:reserve-space? #t] -Connect to the daemon over the Unix-domain socket at @var{file}. When +@defvr {Environment Variable} GUIX_DAEMON_SOCKET +When set, the value of this variable should be a file name or a URI +designating the daemon endpoint. When it is a file name, it denotes a +Unix-domain socket to connect to. In addition to file names, the +supported URI schemes are: + +@table @code +@item file +@itemx unix +These are for Unix-domain sockets. +@code{file:///var/guix/daemon-socket/socket} is equivalent to +@file{/var/guix/daemon-socket/socket}. +@end table + +Additional URI schemes may be supported in the future. +@end defvr + +@deffn {Scheme Procedure} open-connection [@var{uri}] [#:reserve-space? #t] +Connect to the daemon over the Unix-domain socket at @var{uri} (a string). When @var{reserve-space?} is true, instruct it to reserve a little bit of extra space on the file system so that the garbage collector can still operate should the disk become full. Return a server object. |