From: Richard W.M. Jones Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:08:57 +0000 (+0100) Subject: fish: Document that remote run in cmd substitution context hangs. X-Git-Tag: 1.10.8~3 X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7f35002e2301478b602e6d6c890508c25e153d71;p=libguestfs.git fish: Document that remote run in cmd substitution context hangs. This documents bug 592910. (cherry picked from commit 6cabc1cd02e181063596b48df55c3f6db51a6bb9) --- diff --git a/fish/guestfish.pod b/fish/guestfish.pod index 94deb9c..21680c7 100644 --- a/fish/guestfish.pod +++ b/fish/guestfish.pod @@ -913,6 +913,17 @@ 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 (or C) command remotely in a command +substitution context hangs, ie. don't do (note the backquotes): + + a=`guestfish --remote run` + +Since the C command produces no output on stdout, this is not +useful anyway. For further information see +L. + =head1 PREPARED DISK IMAGES Use the I<-N type> or I<--new type> parameter to select one of a set