Rather than changing captive nbdkit to export variables by default (where we don't know if it will break clients of --run to suddenly have more things in their environment variables), it is less invasive to just call attention in our documentation that a run script that relies on the environment must manually export variables. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake(a)redhat.com&gt; --- docs/nbdkit-captive.pod | 7 ++++++- docs/nbdkit-protocol.pod | 4 ++++ docs/nbdkit.pod | 2 ++ server/options.h | 1 + tests/test-synopsis.sh | 1 + 5 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/nbdkit-captive.pod b/docs/nbdkit-captive.pod index 4f9740bc..94a9acb2 100644 --- a/docs/nbdkit-captive.pod +++ b/docs/nbdkit-captive.pod @@ -48,7 +48,12 @@ Running nbdkit captive under nbdsh for unit testing: nbdkit memory 1 --run 'nbdsh -u "$uri" -c "print(h.pread(1, 0))"' -The following shell variables are available in the I<--run> argument: +Running an fio benchmark: + + nbdkit -f null 1G --run 'export uri; fio fio.git/examples/nbd.fio' + +The following shell variables are available in the I<--run> argument +(local to the run script unless you use C<export>): =over 4 diff --git a/docs/nbdkit-protocol.pod b/docs/nbdkit-protocol.pod index 620ea16e..537cc63a 100644 --- a/docs/nbdkit-protocol.pod +++ b/docs/nbdkit-protocol.pod @@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ parts of the NBD protocol, with successively larger impacts: =over 4 +=item B<--no-mc> + =item B<--no-meta-contexts> Force the newstyle protocol to treat all requests for meta context @@ -51,6 +53,8 @@ emulating nbd-server 3.25. =item B<--no-sr> +=item B<--no-structured-replies> + Force the newstyle protocol to decline any client request for structured replies; this is stronger than I<--no-meta-contexts> in that it also disables the opportunity for sparse reads. This is diff --git a/docs/nbdkit.pod b/docs/nbdkit.pod index 4391fc7b..8e82b337 100644 --- a/docs/nbdkit.pod +++ b/docs/nbdkit.pod @@ -334,6 +334,8 @@ L<nbdkit-protocol(1)>. =item B<--no-sr> +=item B<--no-structured-replies> + Do not advertise structured replies. A client must request structured replies to take advantage of block status and potential sparse reads; however, as structured reads are not a mandatory part of the newstyle diff --git a/server/options.h b/server/options.h index 544f8335..7d0730ba 100644 --- a/server/options.h +++ b/server/options.h @@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ static const struct option long_options[] = { { "no-mc", no_argument, NULL, NO_MC_OPTION }, { "no-meta-contexts", no_argument, NULL, NO_MC_OPTION }, { "no-sr", no_argument, NULL, NO_SR_OPTION }, + { "no-structured-replies", no_argument, NULL, NO_SR_OPTION }, { "old-style", no_argument, NULL, 'o' }, { "oldstyle", no_argument, NULL, 'o' }, { "pid-file", required_argument, NULL, 'P' }, diff --git a/tests/test-synopsis.sh b/tests/test-synopsis.sh index 59886847..f8d5bcc4 100755 --- a/tests/test-synopsis.sh +++ b/tests/test-synopsis.sh @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ for i in $(nbdkit --long-options | $nocr); do --ip-addr) ;; # alias of -i, --ipaddr --new-style) ;; # alias of -n, --newstyle --no-mc) ;; # alias of --no-meta-contexts + --no-sr) ;; # alias of --no-structured-replies --old-style) ;; # alias of -o, --oldstyle --pid-file) ;; # alias of -P, --pidfile --read-only) ;; # alias of -r, --readonly -- 2.43.2