Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-nbd: inetd support

[Anthony Liguori]

Laurent Vivier wrote:
> This patch allows to put qemu-nbd in inetd.conf by using stdin/stdout
> instead of a socket.
>
> This behavior is enabled by specifying "--port=0".
>   

That's kind of non-intuitive.  Why not just add a --inetd option or a 
flag that explicitly means read from stdio?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> example:
>
> # add in /etc/services.conf
>
> nbd     1024/tcp
>
> # add in /etc/inetd.conf
>
> nbd             stream  tcp     nowait root /usr/local/bin/qemu-nbd 
> /usr/local/bin/qemu-nbd --nocache --read-only --port 0 
> /ISO/ubuntu-7.10-desktop-amd64.iso
>
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <address@hidden>
>