nbdkit-example2-plugin1

Usage

Overview

"nbdkit-example2-plugin" is an example nbdkit(1) plugin.

It serves the named "FILENAME" over NBD, readonly.

Mainly this is useful for testing nbdkit and as an example for writing nbdkit plugins (nbdkit-plugin(3)).

There are two variations of this plugin which can be found in the source directory. example2.c is the regular plugin for Linux and other Unix-like systems. winexample2.c is the same plugin written for Windows using Win32 APIs to access the file.

Debug flags

For extra debugging (only useful for developers) use -D example2.extra=1

Files

$plugindir/nbdkit-example2-plugin.so

The plugin.

Use "nbdkit --dump-config" to find the location of $plugindir.

Version

"nbdkit-example2-plugin" first appeared in nbdkit 1.0.