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6 libnbd-ocaml - how to use libnbd from OCaml
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9 let nbd = NBD.create () in
10 NBD.connect_uri nbd "nbd://localhost";
11 let size = NBD.get_size nbd in
12 printf "%Ld\n" size
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15 This manual page documents how to use libnbd to access Network Block
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18 The OCaml bindings work very similarly to the C bindings so you should
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21 For OCaml API documentation see NBD(3).
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24 Create a libnbd handle of type "NBD.t" by calling "NBD.create ()".
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32 Libnbd errors are turned automatically into "NBD.Error (str, errno)"
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39 This directory contains examples written in OCaml:
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44 libnbd(3), NBD(3).
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47 Richard W.M. Jones
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50 Copyright (C) 2019-2021 Red Hat Inc.
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53 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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58 This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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