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diff --git a/src/generator.ml b/src/generator.ml
index 742a88c..fbb992a 100755
--- a/src/generator.ml
+++ b/src/generator.ml
@@ -572,7 +572,7 @@ The first character of C<param> string must be a C<-> (dash).
 
 C<value> can be NULL.");
 
-  ("set_qemu", (RErr, [String "qemu"]), -1, [FishAlias "qemu"],
+  ("set_qemu", (RErr, [OptString "qemu"]), -1, [FishAlias "qemu"],
    [],
    "set the qemu binary",
    "\
@@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ Return the current qemu binary.
 This is always non-NULL.  If it wasn't set already, then this will
 return the default qemu binary name.");
 
-  ("set_path", (RErr, [String "searchpath"]), -1, [FishAlias "path"],
+  ("set_path", (RErr, [OptString "searchpath"]), -1, [FishAlias "path"],
    [],
    "set the search path",
    "\
@@ -2442,12 +2442,41 @@ the list of printable strings found.");
    "print the printable strings in a file",
    "\
 This is like the C<guestfs_strings> command, but allows you to
-specify the encoding.
+specify the encoding of strings that are looked for in
+the source file C<path>.
 
-See the L<strings(1)> manpage for the full list of encodings.
+Allowed encodings are:
 
-Commonly useful encodings are C<l> (lower case L) which will
-show strings inside Windows/x86 files.
+=over 4
+
+=item s
+
+Single 7-bit-byte characters like ASCII and the ASCII-compatible
+parts of ISO-8859-X (this is what C<guestfs_strings> uses).
+
+=item S
+
+Single 8-bit-byte characters.
+
+=item b
+
+16-bit big endian strings such as those encoded in
+UTF-16BE or UCS-2BE.
+
+=item l (lower case letter L)
+
+16-bit little endian such as UTF-16LE and UCS-2LE.
+This is useful for examining binaries in Windows guests.
+
+=item B
+
+32-bit big endian such as UCS-4BE.
+
+=item L
+
+32-bit little endian such as UCS-4LE.
+
+=back
 
 The returned strings are transcoded to UTF-8.");
 
@@ -3255,7 +3284,20 @@ for full details.");
 
   ("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