Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH nbdkit 00/10] Make --run imply -U -
On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 07:08:48AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
On Sat, Sep 09, 2023 at 02:57:48PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Should have done this a long time ago. I feel it is about time we
> change the default of nbdkit --run to imply -U -, rather than opening
> a public port.
>
> Patch series turned out to be a little bit more complicated than I
> anticipated, but it contains some nice clean ups.
Indeed, just from the summary it sounds like a good idea. nbdkit can
take advantage of it immediately, but libnbd will need to continue to
explicitly use -U - for a while longer (as long as older nbdkit tends
to be the version still installed on various CI platforms).
Although it might not be useful for libnbd, we could also had a
--dump-config sentinel, something like:
$ nbdkit --dump-config
...
run_default_socket=Unix
(and add run_default_socket=TCP to older branches). If you can think
of a better name for this ... :-)
> Last patch updating the documentation wouldn't be applied
any time
> soon, so that the old docs stay around on the website.
Also a good idea.
Rich.
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