[Libguestfs] FYI: patch to make GNU poke become a libnbd client

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 05:17:31PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> If you're interested in editing binary data served by an arbitrary
> NBD server, I've just proposed a patch to integrate NBD client
> support into GNU poke:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/poke-devel/2020-02/msg00102.html

I got the wrong end of the stick when you were explaining this on IRC.
I thought you were going to add some kind of NBD protocol analysis,
but the patch actually allows you to use poke to examine remote nbd://
resources, which is nice and also makes more sense.

Rich.

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