[Libguestfs] [PATCH libnbd] docs: Document limits on export name.

[Eric Blake]

On 9/17/19 6:38 AM, Eric Blake wrote:

>> +++ b/generator/generator
>> @@ -1066,10 +1066,16 @@ C<\"nbd2\">, etc.";
>>      longdesc = "\
>>  For servers which require an export name or can serve different
>>  content on different exports, set the C<export_name> to
>> -connect to.  This is only relevant for the newstyle protocol.
>> +connect to.  The default is the empty string C<\"\">.
>> +
>> +This is only relevant when connecting to servers using the
>> +newstyle protocol as the oldstyle protocol did not support
>> +export names.  The NBD protocol limits export names to
>> +4096 bytes, but servers may not support the full length.

nbd_add_meta_context deserves the same text.  I'm adding that now...

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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org

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