grep (do it locally using pipe?)
dd (?)
ln / ln -s
- mknod
readlink
utime / utimes / futimes / futimens / l..
- mkfifo
more mk*temp calls
- readdir / readdir-and-stat
some sort of alloc/fallocate/posix_fallocate call to create empty space
realpath
trunc[ate??]
+ getfattr (also useful because gives us access to NTFS datastreams)
+ setfattr
ext2 properties:
chattr
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-Allow memsize to be configured (ie. guestfs_set_memsize etc)
-Also have an environment variable (LIBGUESTFS_MEMSIZE).
-
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Need a way to query a binary or library file for its architecture.
Using objdump or readelf?
What about non-ELF files (eg. Windows, BSD).
initrd-extract
initrd-replace
+
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+
+Control guestfish from a pipe.
+
+For shell scripts - they can start up a long-running guestfish process
+and intermittently send it commands. Avoids the start-up overhead,
+but how do we reliably signal errors?
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