Re: [PATCH] nbd-client: Support leading / in NBD URI

2020-02-12 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 08:31:01PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > The NBD URI specification [1] states that only one leading slash at > the beginning of the URI path component is stripped, not all such > slashes. This becomes important to a patch I just proposed to nbdkit > [2], which would allow the

Re: [PATCH] nbd-client: Support leading / in NBD URI

2020-02-12 Thread Maxim Levitsky
On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 14:33 +0100, Ján Tomko wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 08:31:01PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > > The NBD URI specification [1] states that only one leading slash at > > the beginning of the URI path component is stripped, not all such > > slashes. This becomes important to a p

Re: [PATCH] nbd-client: Support leading / in NBD URI

2020-02-12 Thread Ján Tomko
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 08:31:01PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: The NBD URI specification [1] states that only one leading slash at the beginning of the URI path component is stripped, not all such slashes. This becomes important to a patch I just proposed to nbdkit [2], which would allow the export

[PATCH] nbd-client: Support leading / in NBD URI

2020-02-11 Thread Eric Blake
The NBD URI specification [1] states that only one leading slash at the beginning of the URI path component is stripped, not all such slashes. This becomes important to a patch I just proposed to nbdkit [2], which would allow the exportname to select a file embedded within an ext2 image: ext2fs de