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diff --git a/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm b/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm
index 01d81a6..116f716 100644
--- a/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm
+++ b/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm
@@ -484,6 +484,13 @@ Setting C<whattodrop> to 3 should drop everything.
 This automatically calls L<sync(2)> before the operation,
 so that the maximum guest memory is freed.
 
+=item $equality = $h->equal ($file1, $file2);
+
+This compares the two files C<file1> and C<file2> and returns
+true if their content is exactly equal, or false otherwise.
+
+The external L<cmp(1)> program is used for the comparison.
+
 =item $existsflag = $h->exists ($path);
 
 This returns C<true> if and only if there is a file, directory
@@ -721,7 +728,7 @@ as necessary.  This is like the C<mkdir -p> shell command.
 =item $h->mkfs ($fstype, $device);
 
 This creates a filesystem on C<device> (usually a partition
-of LVM logical volume).  The filesystem type is C<fstype>, for
+or LVM logical volume).  The filesystem type is C<fstype>, for
 example C<ext3>.
 
 =item $h->mount ($device, $mountpoint);
@@ -772,6 +779,13 @@ Some internal mounts are not shown.
 This moves a file from C<src> to C<dest> where C<dest> is
 either a destination filename or destination directory.
 
+=item $h->ping_daemon ();
+
+This is a test probe into the guestfs daemon running inside
+the qemu subprocess.  Calling this function checks that the
+daemon responds to the ping message, without affecting the daemon
+or attached block device(s) in any other way.
+
 =item $h->pvcreate ($device);
 
 This creates an LVM physical volume on the named C<device>,