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
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