Create a connection handle.
-You have to call L</guestfs_add_drive_opts> (or one of the equivalent
-calls) on the handle at least once.
+On success this returns a non-NULL pointer to a handle. On error it
+returns NULL.
-This function returns a non-NULL pointer to a handle on success or
-NULL on error.
+You have to "configure" the handle after creating it. This includes
+calling L</guestfs_add_drive_opts> (or one of the equivalent calls) on
+the handle at least once.
After configuring the handle, you have to call L</guestfs_launch>.
-You may also want to configure error handling for the handle. See
+You may also want to configure error handling for the handle. See the
L</ERROR HANDLING> section below.
=head2 guestfs_close
This closes the connection handle and frees up all resources used.
+If autosync was set on the handle and the handle was launched, then
+this implicitly calls various functions to unmount filesystems and
+sync the disk. See L</guestfs_set_autosync> for more details.
+
+If a close callback was set on the handle, then it is called.
+
=head1 ERROR HANDLING
API functions can return errors. For example, almost all functions