[Libguestfs] Extending nbdkit to support listing exports

[Eric Blake]

On 7/21/20 9:04 AM, Eric Blake wrote:

> 
> I was wondering if we should instead have the core server handle memory, 
> similar to how we handle .exports (that is, the server allocates a 

I meant .extents there.

> container, passes it to the plugin, and the plugin calls 
> nbdkit_export_list_add("...") as many times as it wants, where the 
> server now frees the list instead of throwing the burden on the plugin). 
>   Offhand, I'm thinking either approach could be made to work, so it 
> becomes a decision on which is easier to maintain (both from the 
> perspective of the core server code, and for an arbitrary plugin writer).
> 


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