fish: Document that remote run in cmd substitution context hangs.
authorRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:08:57 +0000 (11:08 +0100)
committerRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:10:20 +0000 (13:10 +0100)
This documents bug 592910.
(cherry picked from commit 6cabc1cd02e181063596b48df55c3f6db51a6bb9)

fish/guestfish.pod

index 35caea5..2fc700f 100644 (file)
@@ -863,6 +863,17 @@ user ID of the process, and C<$PID> is the process ID of the server.
 
 Guestfish client and server versions must match exactly.
 
+=head2 REMOTE CONTROL RUN COMMAND HANGING
+
+Using the C<run> (or C<launch>) command remotely in a command
+substitution context hangs, ie. don't do (note the backquotes):
+
+ a=`guestfish --remote run`
+
+Since the C<run> command produces no output on stdout, this is not
+useful anyway.  For further information see
+L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592910>.
+
 =head1 PREPARED DISK IMAGES
 
 Use the I<-N type> or I<--new type> parameter to select one of a set