On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 02:43:53PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > Make it possible for the sh and eval plugins to disconnect a client or > shut down the entire nbdkit server by use of special return values. > Prior to this patch we had reserved 4-7 for future use; this defines > 4-8, and extends the set of reserved return values to 9-15. We figure > it is unlikely that anyone is using status 4-15 with the intent that > it behaves identically to status 1; more importantly, the choice of > soft disconnect with error for status 8 is the one least likely to > break such an existing sh or eval script. > > For the testsuite, I only covered the eval plugin; but since it shares > common code with the sh plugin, both styles should work. > > A note about the pod documentation: when the argument to =item would > otherwise appear to be a single number, the use of S<> to mask it is > necessary. > ---
> +=item 9-15 > + > +These exit codes are reserved for future use. Note that versions of > +nbdkit E<lt> 1.34 documented that codes S<8> through S<15> behaved > +like code S<1>; although it is unlikely that many scripts relied on > +this similarity in practice. Oops, the use of S<> in this paragraph is not necessary. I've adjusted it locally. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list Libguestfs@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
