From c8002212c5f543b327897bf885dc7a5d8d741789 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:08:57 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] fish: Document that remote run in cmd substitution context hangs. This documents bug 592910. (cherry picked from commit 6cabc1cd02e181063596b48df55c3f6db51a6bb9) --- fish/guestfish.pod | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/fish/guestfish.pod b/fish/guestfish.pod index 35caea5..2fc700f 100644 --- a/fish/guestfish.pod +++ b/fish/guestfish.pod @@ -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 (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 -- 1.8.3.1