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Now that we have implemented systemd socket activation, we can use this to run qemu-nbd in tests. The first patch leaves some dead code around (the -DSERVE_OVER_TCP=1 path). It's possible we might want to use this to test against a putative future NBD server that only supports TCP, but on the other hand maybe we should just remove it. Tests & valgrind still pass for me. Rich.

Since v1: - rebase to applied patches - split out support for Int in callbacks - sort of test that callbacks work in OCaml (see comment in patch 5) - rename API to nbd_pread_structured - expose error as explicit parameter to callback Eric Blake (5): generator: Allow Int in callbacks states: Wire in a read callback states: Add nbd_pread_structured API states: Add tests for

I've mentioned this topic before (in fact, the idea of adding NBD_CMD_FLAG_DF was first mentioned at [1]), but finally finished enough of an implementation to feel confident in posting it. I'd still like to add something under examples/ that uses the new API to implement strict checking of a server's structured replies read implementation (ensure that a server never sends data after