The mounted filesystem is writable, if we have sufficient permissions
on the underlying device.
-The filesystem options C<sync> and C<noatime> are set with this
-call, in order to improve reliability.");
+B<Important note:>
+When you use this call, the filesystem options C<sync> and C<noatime>
+are set implicitly. This was originally done because we thought it
+would improve reliability, but it turns out that I<-o sync> has a
+very large negative performance impact and negligible effect on
+reliability. Therefore we recommend that you avoid using
+C<guestfs_mount> in any code that needs performance, and instead
+use C<guestfs_mount_options> (use an empty string for the first
+parameter if you don't want any options).");
("sync", (RErr, []), 2, [],
[ InitEmpty, Always, TestRun [["sync"]]],
"\
This is the same as the C<guestfs_mount> command, but it
allows you to set the mount options as for the
-L<mount(8)> I<-o> flag.");
+L<mount(8)> I<-o> flag.
+
+If the C<options> parameter is an empty string, then
+no options are passed (all options default to whatever
+the filesystem uses).");
("mount_vfs", (RErr, [String "options"; String "vfstype"; Device "device"; String "mountpoint"]), 75, [],
[],
["e2fsck_f"; "/dev/VG/LV"];
["resize2fs"; "/dev/VG/LV"];
["mount_options"; ""; "/dev/VG/LV"; "/"];
- ["cat"; "/new"]], "test content")],
+ ["cat"; "/new"]], "test content");
+ InitNone, Always, TestRun (
+ (* Make an LV smaller to test RHBZ#587484. *)
+ [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
+ ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda1"];
+ ["vgcreate"; "VG"; "/dev/sda1"];
+ ["lvcreate"; "LV"; "VG"; "20"];
+ ["lvresize"; "/dev/VG/LV"; "10"]])],
"resize an LVM logical volume",
"\
This resizes (expands or shrinks) an existing LVM logical
device major and minor numbers, only used when creating block
and character special devices.
+Note that, just like L<mknod(2)>, the mode must be bitwise
+OR'd with S_IFBLK, S_IFCHR, S_IFIFO or S_IFSOCK (otherwise this call
+just creates a regular file). These constants are
+available in the standard Linux header files, or you can use
+C<guestfs_mknod_b>, C<guestfs_mknod_c> or C<guestfs_mkfifo>
+which are wrappers around this command which bitwise OR
+in the appropriate constant for you.
+
The mode actually set is affected by the umask.");
("mkfifo", (RErr, [Int "mode"; Pathname "path"]), 134, [Optional "mknod"],
("read_file", (RBufferOut "content", [Pathname "path"]), 150, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
[InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputBuffer (
- [["read_file"; "/known-4"]], "abc\ndef\nghi")],
+ [["read_file"; "/known-4"]], "abc\ndef\nghi");
+ (* Test various near large, large and too large files (RHBZ#589039). *)
+ InitBasicFS, Always, TestLastFail (
+ [["touch"; "/a"];
+ ["truncate_size"; "/a"; "4194303"]; (* GUESTFS_MESSAGE_MAX - 1 *)
+ ["read_file"; "/a"]]);
+ InitBasicFS, Always, TestLastFail (
+ [["touch"; "/a"];
+ ["truncate_size"; "/a"; "4194304"]; (* GUESTFS_MESSAGE_MAX *)
+ ["read_file"; "/a"]]);
+ InitBasicFS, Always, TestLastFail (
+ [["touch"; "/a"];
+ ["truncate_size"; "/a"; "41943040"]; (* GUESTFS_MESSAGE_MAX * 10 *)
+ ["read_file"; "/a"]])],
"read a file",
"\
This calls returns the contents of the file C<path> as a
let name = "guestfs_" ^ shortname in
pr "=head2 %s\n\n" name;
pr " ";
- generate_prototype ~extern:false ~handle:"handle" name style;
+ generate_prototype ~extern:false ~handle:"g" name style;
pr "\n\n";
pr "%s\n\n" longdesc;
(match fst style with
List.iter (
fun (shortname, style, _, _, _, _, _) ->
let name = "guestfs_" ^ shortname in
- generate_prototype ~single_line:true ~newline:true ~handle:"handle"
+ generate_prototype ~single_line:true ~newline:true ~handle:"g"
name style
) all_functions
List.iter (
fun (shortname, style, _, _, _, _, _) ->
let name = "guestfs__" ^ shortname in
- generate_prototype ~single_line:true ~newline:true ~handle:"handle"
+ generate_prototype ~single_line:true ~newline:true ~handle:"g"
name style
) non_daemon_functions
iteri (
fun i test_name ->
pr " test_num++;\n";
+ pr " if (guestfs_get_verbose (g))\n";
+ pr " printf (\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\");\n";
pr " printf (\"%%3d/%%3d %s\\n\", test_num, nr_tests);\n" test_name;
pr " if (%s () == -1) {\n" test_name;
pr " printf (\"%s FAILED\\n\");\n" test_name;