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 ... :-)