New API: fallocate64 (replaces fallocate).

[libguestfs.git] / src / generator.ml

diff --git a/src/generator.ml b/src/generator.ml
index d2da8ec..96a5847 100755 (executable)
--- a/src/generator.ml
+++ b/src/generator.ml
@@ -794,8 +794,9 @@ against a completely different C<libguestfs.so> library.
 
 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
@@ -3474,7 +3475,7 @@ The C<-f> option removes the link (C<linkname>) if it exists already.");
    "\
 This command reads the target of a symbolic link.");
 
-  ("fallocate", (RErr, [Pathname "path"; Int "len"]), 169, [],
+  ("fallocate", (RErr, [Pathname "path"; Int "len"]), 169, [DeprecatedBy "fallocate64"],
    [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
       [["fallocate"; "/a"; "1000000"];
        ["stat"; "/a"]], [CompareWithInt ("size", 1_000_000)])],
@@ -3796,8 +3797,8 @@ was built (see C<appliance/kmod.whitelist.in> in the source).");
     )],
    "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.
 
@@ -4277,6 +4278,8 @@ the libguestfs appliance will be able to provide.
 
 The libguestfs groups, and the functions that those
 groups correspond to, are listed in L<guestfs(3)/AVAILABILITY>.
+You can also fetch this list at runtime by calling
+C<guestfs_available_all_groups>.
 
 The argument C<groups> is a list of group names, eg:
 C<[\"inotify\", \"augeas\"]> would check for the availability of
@@ -4707,6 +4710,40 @@ allows you to specify the new size (in bytes) explicitly.");
 This command is the same as C<guestfs_ntfsresize> except that it
 allows you to specify the new size (in bytes) explicitly.");
 
+  ("available_all_groups", (RStringList "groups", []), 251, [],
+   [InitNone, Always, TestRun [["available_all_groups"]]],
+   "return a list of all optional groups",
+   "\
+This command returns a list of all optional groups that this
+daemon knows about.  Note this returns both supported and unsupported
+groups.  To find out which ones the daemon can actually support
+you have to call C<guestfs_available> on each member of the
+returned list.
+
+See also C<guestfs_available> and L<guestfs(3)/AVAILABILITY>.");
+
+  ("fallocate64", (RErr, [Pathname "path"; Int64 "len"]), 252, [],
+   [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
+      [["fallocate64"; "/a"; "1000000"];
+       ["stat"; "/a"]], [CompareWithInt ("size", 1_000_000)])],
+   "preallocate a file in the guest filesystem",
+   "\
+This command preallocates a file (containing zero bytes) named
+C<path> of size C<len> bytes.  If the file exists already, it
+is overwritten.
+
+Note that this call allocates disk blocks for the file.
+To create a sparse file use C<guestfs_truncate_size> instead.
+
+The deprecated call C<guestfs_fallocate> does the same,
+but owing to an oversight it only allowed 30 bit lengths
+to be specified, effectively limiting the maximum size
+of files created through that call to 1GB.
+
+Do not confuse this with the guestfish-specific
+C<alloc> and C<sparse> commands which create
+a file in the host and attach it as a device.");
+
 ]
 
 let all_functions = non_daemon_functions @ daemon_functions
@@ -9113,6 +9150,12 @@ and generate_python_c () =
 #define PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN 1
 #include <Python.h>
 
+#if PY_VERSION_HEX < 0x02050000
+typedef int Py_ssize_t;
+#define PY_SSIZE_T_MAX INT_MAX
+#define PY_SSIZE_T_MIN INT_MIN
+#endif
+
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <assert.h>