"make a filesystem",
"\
This creates a filesystem on C<device> (usually a partition
-of LVM logical volume). The filesystem type is C<fstype>, for
+or LVM logical volume). The filesystem type is C<fstype>, for
example C<ext3>.");
("sfdisk", (RErr, [String "device";
This automatically calls L<sync(2)> before the operation,
so that the maximum guest memory is freed.");
+ ("dmesg", (RString "kmsgs", []), 91, [],
+ [InitEmpty, TestRun (
+ [["dmesg"]])],
+ "return kernel messages",
+ "\
+This returns the kernel messages (C<dmesg> output) from
+the guest kernel. This is sometimes useful for extended
+debugging of problems.
+
+Another way to get the same information is to enable
+verbose messages with C<guestfs_set_verbose> or by setting
+the environment variable C<LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1> before
+running the program.");
+
+ ("ping_daemon", (RErr, []), 92, [],
+ [InitEmpty, TestRun (
+ [["ping_daemon"]])],
+ "ping the guest daemon",
+ "\
+This is a test probe into the guestfs daemon running inside
+the qemu subprocess. Calling this function checks that the
+daemon responds to the ping message, without affecting the daemon
+or attached block device(s) in any other way.");
+
+ ("equal", (RBool "equality", [String "file1"; String "file2"]), 93, [],
+ [InitBasicFS, TestOutputTrue (
+ [["write_file"; "/file1"; "contents of a file"; "0"];
+ ["cp"; "/file1"; "/file2"];
+ ["equal"; "/file1"; "/file2"]]);
+ InitBasicFS, TestOutputFalse (
+ [["write_file"; "/file1"; "contents of a file"; "0"];
+ ["write_file"; "/file2"; "contents of another file"; "0"];
+ ["equal"; "/file1"; "/file2"]]);
+ InitBasicFS, TestLastFail (
+ [["equal"; "/file1"; "/file2"]])],
+ "test if two files have equal contents",
+ "\
+This compares the two files C<file1> and C<file2> and returns
+true if their content is exactly equal, or false otherwise.
+
+The external L<cmp(1)> program is used for the comparison.");
+
]
let all_functions = non_daemon_functions @ daemon_functions
#include \"extconf.h\"
+/* For Ruby < 1.9 */
+#ifndef RARRAY_LEN
+#define RARRAY_LEN(r) (RARRAY((r))->len)
+#endif
+
static VALUE m_guestfs; /* guestfs module */
static VALUE c_guestfs; /* guestfs_h handle */
static VALUE e_Error; /* used for all errors */
let needs_i =
(match fst style with
| RStringList _ | RPVList _ | RVGList _ | RLVList _ -> true
- | RErr _ | RBool _ | RInt _ | RInt64 _ | RConstString _
+ | RErr | RBool _ | RInt _ | RInt64 _ | RConstString _
| RString _ | RIntBool _ | RStat _ | RStatVFS _
| RHashtable _ -> false) ||
List.exists (function StringList _ -> true | _ -> false) (snd style) in