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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-nbd: inetd support
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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 <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
>