This commit documents the limits on export name, encoding, etc. --- generator/generator | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/generator/generator b/generator/generator index a72f36c..87a8cdf 100755 --- a/generator/generator +++ b/generator/generator @@ -1066,10 +1066,16 @@ C<\"nbd2\">, etc."; longdesc = "\ For servers which require an export name or can serve different content on different exports, set the C<export_name> to -connect to. This is only relevant for the newstyle protocol. +connect to. The default is the empty string C<\"\">. + +This is only relevant when connecting to servers using the +newstyle protocol as the oldstyle protocol did not support +export names. The NBD protocol limits export names to +4096 bytes, but servers may not support the full length. +The encoding of export names is always UTF-8. + This call may be skipped if using L<nbd_connect_uri(3)> to connect -to a URI that includes an export name. The default is to use -the empty string."; +to a URI that includes an export name."; }; "get_export_name", { -- 2.23.0