"\
Return the direct appliance mode flag.");
+ ("set_recovery_proc", (RErr, [Bool "recoveryproc"]), -1, [FishAlias "recovery-proc"],
+ [InitNone, Always, TestOutputTrue (
+ [["set_recovery_proc"; "true"];
+ ["get_recovery_proc"]])],
+ "enable or disable the recovery process",
+ "\
+If this is called with the parameter C<false> then
+C<guestfs_launch> does not create a recovery process. The
+purpose of the recovery process is to stop runaway qemu
+processes in the case where the main program aborts abruptly.
+
+This only has any effect if called before C<guestfs_launch>,
+and the default is true.
+
+About the only time when you would want to disable this is
+if the main process will fork itself into the background
+(\"daemonize\" itself). In this case the recovery process
+thinks that the main program has disappeared and so kills
+qemu, which is not very helpful.");
+
+ ("get_recovery_proc", (RBool "recoveryproc", []), -1, [],
+ [],
+ "get recovery process enabled flag",
+ "\
+Return the recovery process enabled flag.");
+
]
(* daemon_functions are any functions which cause some action
names, you will need to locate and parse the password file
yourself (Augeas support makes this relatively easy).");
+ ("lstatlist", (RStructList ("statbufs", "stat"), [Pathname "path"; StringList "names"]), 204, [],
+ [], (* XXX *)
+ "lstat on multiple files",
+ "\
+This call allows you to perform the C<guestfs_lstat> operation
+on multiple files, where all files are in the directory C<path>.
+C<names> is the list of files from this directory.
+
+On return you get a list of stat structs, with a one-to-one
+correspondence to the C<names> list. If any name did not exist
+or could not be lstat'd, then the C<ino> field of that structure
+is set to C<-1>.
+
+This call is intended for programs that want to efficiently
+list a directory contents without making many round-trips.
+See also C<guestfs_lxattrlist> for a similarly efficient call
+for getting extended attributes. Very long directory listings
+might cause the protocol message size to be exceeded, causing
+this call to fail. The caller must split up such requests
+into smaller groups of names.");
+
+ ("lxattrlist", (RStructList ("xattrs", "xattr"), [Pathname "path"; StringList "names"]), 205, [],
+ [], (* XXX *)
+ "lgetxattr on multiple files",
+ "\
+This call allows you to get the extended attributes
+of multiple files, where all files are in the directory C<path>.
+C<names> is the list of files from this directory.
+
+On return you get a flat list of xattr structs which must be
+interpreted sequentially. The first xattr struct always has a zero-length
+C<attrname>. C<attrval> in this struct is zero-length
+to indicate there was an error doing C<lgetxattr> for this
+file, I<or> is a C string which is a decimal number
+(the number of following attributes for this file, which could
+be C<\"0\">). Then after the first xattr struct are the
+zero or more attributes for the first named file.
+This repeats for the second and subsequent files.
+
+This call is intended for programs that want to efficiently
+list a directory contents without making many round-trips.
+See also C<guestfs_lstatlist> for a similarly efficient call
+for getting standard stats. Very long directory listings
+might cause the protocol message size to be exceeded, causing
+this call to fail. The caller must split up such requests
+into smaller groups of names.");
+
+ ("readlinklist", (RStringList "links", [Pathname "path"; StringList "names"]), 206, [],
+ [], (* XXX *)
+ "readlink on multiple files",
+ "\
+This call allows you to do a C<readlink> operation
+on multiple files, where all files are in the directory C<path>.
+C<names> is the list of files from this directory.
+
+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.
+
+If the C<readlink(2)> operation fails on any name, then
+the corresponding result string is the empty string C<\"\">.
+However the whole operation is completed even if there
+were C<readlink(2)> errors, and so you can call this
+function with names where you don't know if they are
+symbolic links already (albeit slightly less efficient).
+
+This call is intended for programs that want to efficiently
+list a directory contents without making many round-trips.
+Very long directory listings might cause the protocol
+message size to be exceeded, causing
+this call to fail. The caller must split up such requests
+into smaller groups of names.");
+
+ ("pread", (RBufferOut "content", [Pathname "path"; Int "count"; Int64 "offset"]), 207, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
+ [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputBuffer (
+ [["pread"; "/known-4"; "1"; "3"]], "\n")],
+ "read part of a file",
+ "\
+This command lets you read part of a file. It reads C<count>
+bytes of the file, starting at C<offset>, from file C<path>.
+
+This may read fewer bytes than requested. For further details
+see the L<pread(2)> system call.");
+
]
let all_functions = non_daemon_functions @ daemon_functions
exception Error of string
(** This exception is raised when there is an error. *)
+exception Handle_closed of string
+(** This exception is raised if you use a {!Guestfs.t} handle
+ after calling {!close} on it. The string is the name of
+ the function. *)
+
val create : unit -> t
+(** Create a {!Guestfs.t} handle. *)
val close : t -> unit
-(** Handles are closed by the garbage collector when they become
- unreferenced, but callers can also call this in order to
- provide predictable cleanup. *)
+(** Close the {!Guestfs.t} handle and free up all resources used
+ by it immediately.
+
+ Handles are closed by the garbage collector when they become
+ unreferenced, but callers can call this in order to provide
+ predictable cleanup. *)
";
generate_ocaml_structure_decls ();
generate_ocaml_prototype name style;
pr "(** %s *)\n" shortdesc;
pr "\n"
- ) all_functions
+ ) all_functions_sorted
(* Generate the OCaml bindings implementation. *)
and generate_ocaml_ml () =
pr "\
type t
+
exception Error of string
+exception Handle_closed of string
+
external create : unit -> t = \"ocaml_guestfs_create\"
external close : t -> unit = \"ocaml_guestfs_close\"
+(* Give the exceptions names, so they can be raised from the C code. *)
let () =
- Callback.register_exception \"ocaml_guestfs_error\" (Error \"\")
+ Callback.register_exception \"ocaml_guestfs_error\" (Error \"\");
+ Callback.register_exception \"ocaml_guestfs_closed\" (Handle_closed \"\")
";
List.iter (
fun (name, style, _, _, _, shortdesc, _) ->
generate_ocaml_prototype ~is_external:true name style;
- ) all_functions
+ ) all_functions_sorted
(* Generate the OCaml bindings C implementation. *)
and generate_ocaml_c () =
(* The wrappers. *)
List.iter (
fun (name, style, _, _, _, _, _) ->
+ pr "/* Automatically generated wrapper for function\n";
+ pr " * ";
+ generate_ocaml_prototype name style;
+ pr " */\n";
+ pr "\n";
+
let params =
"gv" :: List.map (fun arg -> name_of_argt arg ^ "v") (snd style) in
pr "/* Emit prototype to appease gcc's -Wmissing-prototypes. */\n";
pr "CAMLprim value ocaml_guestfs_%s (value %s" name (List.hd params);
List.iter (pr ", value %s") (List.tl params); pr ");\n";
+ pr "\n";
pr "CAMLprim value\n";
pr "ocaml_guestfs_%s (value %s" name (List.hd params);
pr " guestfs_h *g = Guestfs_val (gv);\n";
pr " if (g == NULL)\n";
- pr " caml_failwith (\"%s: used handle after closing it\");\n" name;
+ pr " ocaml_guestfs_raise_closed (\"%s\");\n" name;
pr "\n";
List.iter (
pr "}\n";
pr "\n"
)
- ) all_functions
+ ) all_functions_sorted
and generate_ocaml_structure_decls () =
List.iter (
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