Document accurately how supermin appliance uses /tmp as a cache.

[libguestfs.git] / fish / guestfish.pod

diff --git a/fish/guestfish.pod b/fish/guestfish.pod
index 4e0ff13..285d901 100644 (file)
--- a/fish/guestfish.pod
+++ b/fish/guestfish.pod
@@ -815,6 +815,12 @@ Used with the I<--remote> option to specify the remote guestfish
 process to control.  See section
 L</REMOTE CONTROL GUESTFISH OVER A SOCKET>.
 
+=item HEXEDITOR
+
+The L</hexedit> command uses C<$HEXEDITOR> as the external hex
+editor.  If not specified, the external L<hexedit(1)> program
+is used.
+
 =item HOME
 
 If compiled with GNU readline support, various files in the
@@ -860,9 +866,9 @@ set, it uses C<more>.
 
 Location of temporary directory, defaults to C</tmp>.
 
-If libguestfs was compiled to use the supermin appliance then each
-handle will require rather a large amount of space in this directory
-for short periods of time (~ 80 MB).  You can use C<$TMPDIR> to
+If libguestfs was compiled to use the supermin appliance then the
+real appliance is cached in this directory, shared between all
+handles belonging to the same EUID.  You can use C<$TMPDIR> to
 configure another directory to use in case C</tmp> is not large
 enough.
 
@@ -932,7 +938,8 @@ L<virt-make-fs(1)>,
 L<virt-rescue(1)>,
 L<virt-resize(1)>,
 L<virt-tar(1)>,
-L<virt-win-reg(1)>.
+L<virt-win-reg(1)>,
+L<hexedit(1)>.
 
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