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This incomplete patch adds a new filter allowing more control over when nbdkit exits. You can now get nbdkit to exit gracefully on certain events, such as a file being created, a pipe held open by another process going away, or when another PID exits. There is also a script option to allow for completely custom events. It is untested at the moment, I'm posting it to get feedback on the

...it-when-file-created") == 0 || + strcmp (key, "exit-when-file-deleted") == 0) { + event.type = key[15] == 'c' ? EVENT_FILE_CREATED : EVENT_FILE_DELETED; + event.u.filename = nbdkit_absolute_path (value); + if (event.u.filename == NULL) + return -1; + if (event_list_append (&events, event) == -1) + return -1; + return 0; + } + else if (strcmp (key, "exit-when-pipe-closed") == 0 || + strcmp (key, "exit-when-fd-closed") == 0) { + event.type = EVENT_FD_CLOSED; + if (nbdkit_parse_int ("exit-when-pipe-closed", va...