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",
"\
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",
"\
This call was added in version C<1.0.58>. In previous
versions of libguestfs there was no way to get the version
-number. From C code you can use ELF weak linking tricks to find out if
-this symbol exists (if it doesn't, then it's an earlier version).
+number. From C code you can use dynamic linker functions
+to find out if this symbol exists (if it doesn't, then
+it's an earlier version).
The call returns a structure with four elements. The first
three (C<major>, C<minor> and C<release>) are numbers and
To construct the original version string:
C<$major.$minor.$release$extra>
+See also: L<guestfs(3)/LIBGUESTFS VERSION NUMBERS>.
+
I<Note:> Don't use this call to test for availability
-of features. Distro backports makes this unreliable. Use
-C<guestfs_available> instead.");
+of features. In enterprise distributions we backport
+features from later versions into earlier versions,
+making this an unreliable way to test for features.
+Use C<guestfs_available> instead.");
("set_selinux", (RErr, [Bool "selinux"]), -1, [FishAlias "selinux"],
[InitNone, Always, TestOutputTrue (
The mounted filesystem is writable, if we have sufficient permissions
on the underlying device.
-The filesystem options C<sync> and C<noatime> are set with this
-call, in order to improve reliability.");
+B<Important note:>
+When you use this call, the filesystem options C<sync> and C<noatime>
+are set implicitly. This was originally done because we thought it
+would improve reliability, but it turns out that I<-o sync> has a
+very large negative performance impact and negligible effect on
+reliability. Therefore we recommend that you avoid using
+C<guestfs_mount> in any code that needs performance, and instead
+use C<guestfs_mount_options> (use an empty string for the first
+parameter if you don't want any options).");
("sync", (RErr, []), 2, [],
[ InitEmpty, Always, TestRun [["sync"]]],
["cat"; "/new"]], "\n\n\n");
InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutput (
[["write_file"; "/new"; "\n"; "0"];
- ["cat"; "/new"]], "\n")],
+ ["cat"; "/new"]], "\n");
+ (* Regression test for RHBZ#597135. *)
+ InitBasicFS, Always, TestLastFail
+ [["write_file"; "/new"; "abc"; "10000"]]],
"create a file",
"\
This call creates a file called C<path>. The contents of the
"\
This is the same as the C<guestfs_mount> command, but it
allows you to set the mount options as for the
-L<mount(8)> I<-o> flag.");
+L<mount(8)> I<-o> flag.
+
+If the C<options> parameter is an empty string, then
+no options are passed (all options default to whatever
+the filesystem uses).");
("mount_vfs", (RErr, [String "options"; String "vfstype"; Device "device"; String "mountpoint"]), 75, [],
[],
"install GRUB",
"\
This command installs GRUB (the Grand Unified Bootloader) on
-C<device>, with the root directory being C<root>.");
+C<device>, with the root directory being C<root>.
+
+Note: If grub-install reports the error
+\"No suitable drive was found in the generated device map.\"
+it may be that you need to create a C</boot/grub/device.map>
+file first that contains the mapping between grub device names
+and Linux device names. It is usually sufficient to create
+a file containing:
+
+ (hd0) /dev/vda
+
+replacing C</dev/vda> with the name of the installation device.");
("cp", (RErr, [Pathname "src"; Pathname "dest"]), 87, [],
[InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutput (
"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>.
+
+Allowed encodings are:
+
+=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).
-See the L<strings(1)> manpage for the full list of encodings.
+=item S
-Commonly useful encodings are C<l> (lower case L) which will
-show strings inside Windows/x86 files.
+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.");
["e2fsck_f"; "/dev/VG/LV"];
["resize2fs"; "/dev/VG/LV"];
["mount_options"; ""; "/dev/VG/LV"; "/"];
- ["cat"; "/new"]], "test content")],
+ ["cat"; "/new"]], "test content");
+ InitNone, Always, TestRun (
+ (* Make an LV smaller to test RHBZ#587484. *)
+ [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
+ ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda1"];
+ ["vgcreate"; "VG"; "/dev/sda1"];
+ ["lvcreate"; "LV"; "VG"; "20"];
+ ["lvresize"; "/dev/VG/LV"; "10"]])],
"resize an LVM logical volume",
"\
This resizes (expands or shrinks) an existing LVM logical
("resize2fs", (RErr, [Device "device"]), 106, [],
[], (* lvresize tests this *)
- "resize an ext2/ext3 filesystem",
+ "resize an ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystem",
"\
-This resizes an ext2 or ext3 filesystem to match the size of
+This resizes an ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystem to match the size of
the underlying device.
I<Note:> It is sometimes required that you run C<guestfs_e2fsck_f>
=item '?'
-The L<readdir(3)> returned a C<d_type> field with an
+The L<readdir(3)> call returned a C<d_type> field with an
unexpected value
=back
("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
)],
"echo arguments back to the client",
"\
-This command concatenate the list of C<words> passed with single spaces between
-them and returns the resulting string.
+This command concatenates the list of C<words> passed with single spaces
+between them and returns the resulting string.
You can use this command to test the connection through to the daemon.
[["vfs_type"; "/dev/sda1"]], "ext2")],
"get the Linux VFS type corresponding to a mounted device",
"\
-This command gets the block device type corresponding to
-a mounted device called C<device>.
+This command gets the filesystem type corresponding to
+the filesystem on C<device>.
-Usually the result is the name of the Linux VFS module that
-is used to mount this device (probably determined automatically
-if you used the C<guestfs_mount> call).");
+For most filesystems, the result is the name of the Linux
+VFS module which would be used to mount this filesystem
+if you mounted it without specifying the filesystem type.
+For example a string such as C<ext3> or C<ntfs>.");
("truncate", (RErr, [Pathname "path"]), 199, [],
[InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
"truncate a file to a particular size",
"\
This command truncates C<path> to size C<size> bytes. The file
-must exist already. If the file is smaller than C<size> then
-the file is extended to the required size with null bytes.");
+must exist already.
+
+If the current file size is less than C<size> then
+the file is extended to the required size with zero bytes.
+This creates a sparse file (ie. disk blocks are not allocated
+for the file until you write to it). To create a non-sparse
+file of zeroes, use C<guestfs_fallocate64> instead.");
("utimens", (RErr, [Pathname "path"; Int64 "atsecs"; Int64 "atnsecs"; Int64 "mtsecs"; Int64 "mtnsecs"]), 201, [],
[InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
On return you get a list of strings, with a one-to-one
correspondence to the C<names> list. Each string is the
-value of the symbol link.
+value of the symbolic link.
If the C<readlink(2)> operation fails on any name, then
the corresponding result string is the empty string C<\"\">.
}
*/
+static int
+is_available (const char *group)
+{
+ const char *groups[] = { group, NULL };
+ int r;
+
+ suppress_error = 1;
+ r = guestfs_available (g, (char **) groups);
+ suppress_error = 0;
+
+ return r == 0;
+}
+
";
(* Generate a list of commands which are not tested anywhere. *)
iteri (
fun i test_name ->
pr " test_num++;\n";
+ pr " if (guestfs_get_verbose (g))\n";
+ pr " printf (\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\");\n";
pr " printf (\"%%3d/%%3d %s\\n\", test_num, nr_tests);\n" test_name;
pr " if (%s () == -1) {\n" test_name;
pr " printf (\"%s FAILED\\n\");\n" test_name;
List.iter (
function
| Optional group ->
- pr " {\n";
- pr " const char *groups[] = { \"%s\", NULL };\n" group;
- pr " int r;\n";
- pr " suppress_error = 1;\n";
- pr " r = guestfs_available (g, (char **) groups);\n";
- pr " suppress_error = 0;\n";
- pr " if (r == -1) {\n";
- pr " printf (\" %%s skipped (reason: group %%s not available in daemon)\\n\", \"%s\", groups[0]);\n" test_name;
- pr " return 0;\n";
- pr " }\n";
+ pr " if (!is_available (\"%s\")) {\n" group;
+ pr " printf (\" %%s skipped (reason: group %%s not available in daemon)\\n\", \"%s\", \"%s\");\n" test_name group;
+ pr " return 0;\n";
pr " }\n";
| _ -> ()
) flags;
pr "\n";
(* display_command function, which implements guestfish -h cmd *)
- pr "void display_command (const char *cmd)\n";
+ pr "int display_command (const char *cmd)\n";
pr "{\n";
List.iter (
fun (name, style, _, flags, _, shortdesc, longdesc) ->
pr " || STRCASEEQ (cmd, \"%s\")" name2;
if name <> alias then
pr " || STRCASEEQ (cmd, \"%s\")" alias;
- pr ")\n";
+ pr ") {\n";
pr " pod2text (\"%s\", _(\"%s\"), %S);\n"
name2 shortdesc
("=head1 SYNOPSIS\n\n " ^ synopsis ^ "\n\n" ^
"=head1 DESCRIPTION\n\n" ^
longdesc ^ warnings ^ describe_alias);
+ pr " return 0;\n";
+ pr " }\n";
pr " else\n"
) all_functions;
- pr " display_builtin_command (cmd);\n";
+ pr " return display_builtin_command (cmd);\n";
pr "}\n";
pr "\n";
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