nbd_connection_state - return string describing the state of the connection

       Eric Blake

       Richard W.M. Jones

       Copyright Red Hat

       Returns a descriptive string for the state of the connection.  This can be used for debugging or
       troubleshooting, but you should not rely on the state of connections since it may change in future
       versions.

       On error "NULL" is returned.

       Refer to "ERROR HANDLING" in libnbd(3) for how to get further details of the error.

       The following parameters must not be NULL: "h".  For more information see "Non-NULL parameters" in
       libnbd(3).

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libnbd-1.22.2                                      2025-06-16                            nbd_connection_state(3)

       nbd_connection_state - return string describing the state of the connection

       This call returns a statically allocated string, valid for the lifetime of the process or until libnbd is
       unloaded by dlclose(3).  You mustnot try to free the string.

nbd_create(3), libnbd(3).

        #include <libnbd.h>

        const char * nbd_connection_state (
                       struct nbd_handle *h
                     );

       This function first appeared in libnbd 1.0.

       If you need to test if this function is available at compile time check if the following macro is
       defined:

        #define LIBNBD_HAVE_NBD_CONNECTION_STATE 1