nbdkit-time-limit-filter(1)

✨ nbdkit-time-limit-filter ✨

bestie, welcome to the manual page for nbdkit-time-limit-filter — it's part of the NBDKIT manual, and it's the filter that sets an overall time limit for each connection. ⏰💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

nbdkit-time-limit-filter — set an overall time limit for each connection 🕐

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

nbdkit --filter=time-limit PLUGIN [time-limit=TIME]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

nbdkit-time-limit-filter is an nbdkit(1) filter that puts an overall limit on how long a client is allowed to stay connected. Once that time limit gets exceeded, client commands get rejected and we attempt to disconnect the client. bye bestie 👋😭

Note: because of current limitations in the filter API, a client can hold an idle connection open for longer than the time limit. The time limit is only enforced when the client actually sends a command to the server. 🫠

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🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

• time-limit=TIME — caps the length of a connection at TIME seconds. You can also use other formats, exactly as specified over in nbdkit_parse_delay(3). 🌈 The default is 60 seconds. ⏳

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🦋 FILES 🦋

• $filterdir/nbdkit-time-limit-filter.so — the filter itself, periodt. 💅 Run nbdkit --dump-config to find out where $filterdir lives. 🔍

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

nbdkit-time-limit-filter first appeared in nbdkit 1.42. iconic debut fr fr 👑

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• nbdkit(1) — --timeout parameter
• nbdkit-exitlast-filter(1)
• nbdkit-exitwhen-filter(1)
• nbdkit-ip-filter(1)
• nbdkit-limit-filter(1)
• nbdkit-noparallel-filter(1)
• nbdkit-rate-filter(1)
• nbdkit_disconnect(3)
• nbdkit_parse_delay(3)
• nbdkit-filter(3)
• nbdkit-plugin(3)

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🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

Richard W.M. Jones 🫶

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright Red Hat 🎀

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📜 LICENSE 📜

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: ✅

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 📝
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 📦
3. Neither the name of Red Hat nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. 🚫

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okay that's the whole page bestie, ily, go set some time limits 💖 This one's from nbdkit-1.48.1, dated 2026-08-29, and it lives under the manual page name nbdkit-time-limit-filter(1). bye!! 🦋✨