[Libguestfs] [nbdkit PATCH] sh: Add exit status triggers for nbdkit_{shutdown, disconnect}

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Thu Nov 10 14:15:04 UTC 2022


On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 01:47:15PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 01:36:26PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > > -=item 4, 5, 6, 7
> > > > +=item S<4>
> > > 
> > > The S<> notation seems new here (so it's going to be inconsistent with
> > > the rest of this file, I think).
> > 
> > I was going to mention this too.  The S<> notation is used to insert
> > non-breaking spaces (for output formats that support it) in a span of
> > text so that it won't be folded over multiple lines.  AFAIK it
> > shouldn't have any effect here.
> 
> Ah, but it does:
> 
> Pod input around line 121: Expected text after =item, not a number
> 
> The use of S<> is there to keep the pod formatter happy when =item's
> sole argument would otherwise look like a number instead of arbitrary
> text.

Oh indeed!  I had forgotten about this weirdness of pod.

$ cat test.pod
=over 4

=item 2

A

=item 3

B
=back

$ pod2text test.pod 
    2   A

test.pod around line 7: Expected text after =item, not a number
    3   B

Rich.

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