Sandboxing
Isolating the Nix build process from everything else on your system
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Whenever Nix builds anything, it sandboxes that process from everything else on the host system. Nix builds are sandboxed for a variety of reasons:
- The ensure reproducibility. Sandboxing ensures that no system state on the host machine affects the build outcomes.
- To maintain strict provenance.