+ ("setcon", (RErr, [String "context"]), 185, [],
+ [],
+ "set SELinux security context",
+ "\
+This sets the SELinux security context of the daemon
+to the string C<context>.
+
+See the documentation about SELINUX in L<guestfs(3)>.");
+
+ ("getcon", (RString "context", []), 186, [],
+ [],
+ "get SELinux security context",
+ "\
+This gets the SELinux security context of the daemon.
+
+See the documentation about SELINUX in L<guestfs(3)>,
+and C<guestfs_setcon>");
+
+ ("mkfs_b", (RErr, [String "fstype"; Int "blocksize"; Device "device"]), 187, [],
+ [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutput (
+ [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
+ ["mkfs_b"; "ext2"; "4096"; "/dev/sda1"];
+ ["mount"; "/dev/sda1"; "/"];
+ ["write_file"; "/new"; "new file contents"; "0"];
+ ["cat"; "/new"]], "new file contents")],
+ "make a filesystem with block size",
+ "\
+This call is similar to C<guestfs_mkfs>, but it allows you to
+control the block size of the resulting filesystem. Supported
+block sizes depend on the filesystem type, but typically they
+are C<1024>, C<2048> or C<4096> only.");
+
+ ("mke2journal", (RErr, [Int "blocksize"; Device "device"]), 188, [],
+ [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutput (
+ [["sfdiskM"; "/dev/sda"; ",100 ,"];
+ ["mke2journal"; "4096"; "/dev/sda1"];
+ ["mke2fs_J"; "ext2"; "4096"; "/dev/sda2"; "/dev/sda1"];
+ ["mount"; "/dev/sda2"; "/"];
+ ["write_file"; "/new"; "new file contents"; "0"];
+ ["cat"; "/new"]], "new file contents")],
+ "make ext2/3/4 external journal",
+ "\
+This creates an ext2 external journal on C<device>. It is equivalent
+to the command:
+
+ mke2fs -O journal_dev -b blocksize device");
+
+ ("mke2journal_L", (RErr, [Int "blocksize"; String "label"; Device "device"]), 189, [],
+ [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutput (
+ [["sfdiskM"; "/dev/sda"; ",100 ,"];
+ ["mke2journal_L"; "4096"; "JOURNAL"; "/dev/sda1"];
+ ["mke2fs_JL"; "ext2"; "4096"; "/dev/sda2"; "JOURNAL"];
+ ["mount"; "/dev/sda2"; "/"];
+ ["write_file"; "/new"; "new file contents"; "0"];
+ ["cat"; "/new"]], "new file contents")],
+ "make ext2/3/4 external journal with label",
+ "\
+This creates an ext2 external journal on C<device> with label C<label>.");
+
+ ("mke2journal_U", (RErr, [Int "blocksize"; String "uuid"; Device "device"]), 190, [],
+ (let uuid = uuidgen () in
+ [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutput (
+ [["sfdiskM"; "/dev/sda"; ",100 ,"];
+ ["mke2journal_U"; "4096"; uuid; "/dev/sda1"];
+ ["mke2fs_JU"; "ext2"; "4096"; "/dev/sda2"; uuid];
+ ["mount"; "/dev/sda2"; "/"];
+ ["write_file"; "/new"; "new file contents"; "0"];
+ ["cat"; "/new"]], "new file contents")]),
+ "make ext2/3/4 external journal with UUID",
+ "\
+This creates an ext2 external journal on C<device> with UUID C<uuid>.");
+
+ ("mke2fs_J", (RErr, [String "fstype"; Int "blocksize"; Device "device"; Device "journal"]), 191, [],
+ [],
+ "make ext2/3/4 filesystem with external journal",
+ "\
+This creates an ext2/3/4 filesystem on C<device> with
+an external journal on C<journal>. It is equivalent
+to the command:
+
+ mke2fs -t fstype -b blocksize -J device=<journal> <device>
+
+See also C<guestfs_mke2journal>.");
+
+ ("mke2fs_JL", (RErr, [String "fstype"; Int "blocksize"; Device "device"; String "label"]), 192, [],
+ [],
+ "make ext2/3/4 filesystem with external journal",
+ "\
+This creates an ext2/3/4 filesystem on C<device> with
+an external journal on the journal labeled C<label>.
+
+See also C<guestfs_mke2journal_L>.");
+
+ ("mke2fs_JU", (RErr, [String "fstype"; Int "blocksize"; Device "device"; String "uuid"]), 193, [],
+ [],
+ "make ext2/3/4 filesystem with external journal",
+ "\
+This creates an ext2/3/4 filesystem on C<device> with
+an external journal on the journal with UUID C<uuid>.
+
+See also C<guestfs_mke2journal_U>.");
+
+ ("modprobe", (RErr, [String "modulename"]), 194, [],
+ [InitNone, Always, TestRun [["modprobe"; "fat"]]],
+ "load a kernel module",
+ "\
+This loads a kernel module in the appliance.
+
+The kernel module must have been whitelisted when libguestfs
+was built (see C<appliance/kmod.whitelist.in> in the source).");
+
+ ("echo_daemon", (RString "output", [StringList "words"]), 195, [],
+ [InitNone, Always, TestOutput (
+ [["echo_daemon"; "This is a test"]], "This is a test"
+ )],
+ "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.
+
+You can use this command to test the connection through to the daemon.
+
+See also C<guestfs_ping_daemon>.");
+
+ ("find0", (RErr, [Pathname "directory"; FileOut "files"]), 196, [],
+ [], (* There is a regression test for this. *)
+ "find all files and directories, returning NUL-separated list",
+ "\
+This command lists out all files and directories, recursively,
+starting at C<directory>, placing the resulting list in the
+external file called C<files>.
+
+This command works the same way as C<guestfs_find> with the
+following exceptions:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+The resulting list is written to an external file.
+
+=item *
+
+Items (filenames) in the result are separated
+by C<\\0> characters. See L<find(1)> option I<-print0>.
+
+=item *
+
+This command is not limited in the number of names that it
+can return.
+
+=item *
+
+The result list is not sorted.
+
+=back");
+
+ ("case_sensitive_path", (RString "rpath", [Pathname "path"]), 197, [],
+ [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
+ [["case_sensitive_path"; "/DIRECTORY"]], "/directory");
+ InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
+ [["case_sensitive_path"; "/DIRECTORY/"]], "/directory");
+ InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
+ [["case_sensitive_path"; "/Known-1"]], "/known-1");
+ InitISOFS, Always, TestLastFail (
+ [["case_sensitive_path"; "/Known-1/"]]);
+ InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutput (
+ [["mkdir"; "/a"];
+ ["mkdir"; "/a/bbb"];
+ ["touch"; "/a/bbb/c"];
+ ["case_sensitive_path"; "/A/bbB/C"]], "/a/bbb/c");
+ InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutput (
+ [["mkdir"; "/a"];
+ ["mkdir"; "/a/bbb"];
+ ["touch"; "/a/bbb/c"];
+ ["case_sensitive_path"; "/A////bbB/C"]], "/a/bbb/c");
+ InitBasicFS, Always, TestLastFail (
+ [["mkdir"; "/a"];
+ ["mkdir"; "/a/bbb"];
+ ["touch"; "/a/bbb/c"];
+ ["case_sensitive_path"; "/A/bbb/../bbb/C"]])],
+ "return true path on case-insensitive filesystem",
+ "\
+This can be used to resolve case insensitive paths on
+a filesystem which is case sensitive. The use case is
+to resolve paths which you have read from Windows configuration
+files or the Windows Registry, to the true path.
+
+The command handles a peculiarity of the Linux ntfs-3g
+filesystem driver (and probably others), which is that although
+the underlying filesystem is case-insensitive, the driver
+exports the filesystem to Linux as case-sensitive.
+
+One consequence of this is that special directories such
+as C<c:\\windows> may appear as C</WINDOWS> or C</windows>
+(or other things) depending on the precise details of how
+they were created. In Windows itself this would not be
+a problem.
+
+Bug or feature? You decide:
+L<http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-faq/#posixfilenames1>
+
+This function resolves the true case of each element in the
+path and returns the case-sensitive path.
+
+Thus C<guestfs_case_sensitive_path> (\"/Windows/System32\")
+might return C<\"/WINDOWS/system32\"> (the exact return value
+would depend on details of how the directories were originally
+created under Windows).
+
+I<Note>:
+This function does not handle drive names, backslashes etc.
+
+See also C<guestfs_realpath>.");
+
+ ("vfs_type", (RString "fstype", [Device "device"]), 198, [],
+ [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutput (
+ [["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>.
+
+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).");
+
+ ("truncate", (RErr, [Pathname "path"]), 199, [],
+ [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
+ [["write_file"; "/test"; "some stuff so size is not zero"; "0"];
+ ["truncate"; "/test"];
+ ["stat"; "/test"]], [CompareWithInt ("size", 0)])],
+ "truncate a file to zero size",
+ "\
+This command truncates C<path> to a zero-length file. The
+file must exist already.");
+
+ ("truncate_size", (RErr, [Pathname "path"; Int64 "size"]), 200, [],
+ [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
+ [["touch"; "/test"];
+ ["truncate_size"; "/test"; "1000"];
+ ["stat"; "/test"]], [CompareWithInt ("size", 1000)])],
+ "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.");
+
+ ("utimens", (RErr, [Pathname "path"; Int64 "atsecs"; Int64 "atnsecs"; Int64 "mtsecs"; Int64 "mtnsecs"]), 201, [],
+ [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
+ [["touch"; "/test"];
+ ["utimens"; "/test"; "12345"; "67890"; "9876"; "5432"];
+ ["stat"; "/test"]], [CompareWithInt ("mtime", 9876)])],
+ "set timestamp of a file with nanosecond precision",
+ "\
+This command sets the timestamps of a file with nanosecond
+precision.
+
+C<atsecs, atnsecs> are the last access time (atime) in secs and
+nanoseconds from the epoch.
+
+C<mtsecs, mtnsecs> are the last modification time (mtime) in
+secs and nanoseconds from the epoch.
+
+If the C<*nsecs> field contains the special value C<-1> then
+the corresponding timestamp is set to the current time. (The
+C<*secs> field is ignored in this case).
+
+If the C<*nsecs> field contains the special value C<-2> then
+the corresponding timestamp is left unchanged. (The
+C<*secs> field is ignored in this case).");
+
+ ("mkdir_mode", (RErr, [Pathname "path"; Int "mode"]), 202, [],
+ [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
+ [["mkdir_mode"; "/test"; "0o111"];
+ ["stat"; "/test"]], [CompareWithInt ("mode", 0o40111)])],
+ "create a directory with a particular mode",
+ "\
+This command creates a directory, setting the initial permissions
+of the directory to C<mode>. See also C<guestfs_mkdir>.");
+
+ ("lchown", (RErr, [Int "owner"; Int "group"; Pathname "path"]), 203, [],
+ [], (* XXX *)
+ "change file owner and group",
+ "\
+Change the file owner to C<owner> and group to C<group>.
+This is like C<guestfs_chown> but if C<path> is a symlink then
+the link itself is changed, not the target.
+
+Only numeric uid and gid are supported. If you want to use
+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.");
+
+ ("part_init", (RErr, [Device "device"; String "parttype"]), 208, [],
+ [InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
+ [["part_init"; "/dev/sda"; "gpt"]])],
+ "create an empty partition table",
+ "\
+This creates an empty partition table on C<device> of one of the
+partition types listed below. Usually C<parttype> should be
+either C<msdos> or C<gpt> (for large disks).
+
+Initially there are no partitions. Following this, you should
+call C<guestfs_part_add> for each partition required.
+
+Possible values for C<parttype> are:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<efi> | B<gpt>
+
+Intel EFI / GPT partition table.
+
+This is recommended for >= 2 TB partitions that will be accessed
+from Linux and Intel-based Mac OS X. It also has limited backwards
+compatibility with the C<mbr> format.
+
+=item B<mbr> | B<msdos>
+
+The standard PC \"Master Boot Record\" (MBR) format used
+by MS-DOS and Windows. This partition type will B<only> work
+for device sizes up to 2 TB. For large disks we recommend
+using C<gpt>.
+
+=back
+
+Other partition table types that may work but are not
+supported include:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<aix>
+
+AIX disk labels.
+
+=item B<amiga> | B<rdb>
+
+Amiga \"Rigid Disk Block\" format.
+
+=item B<bsd>
+
+BSD disk labels.
+
+=item B<dasd>
+
+DASD, used on IBM mainframes.
+
+=item B<dvh>
+
+MIPS/SGI volumes.
+
+=item B<mac>
+
+Old Mac partition format. Modern Macs use C<gpt>.
+
+=item B<pc98>
+
+NEC PC-98 format, common in Japan apparently.
+
+=item B<sun>
+
+Sun disk labels.
+
+=back");
+
+ ("part_add", (RErr, [Device "device"; String "prlogex"; Int64 "startsect"; Int64 "endsect"]), 209, [],
+ [InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
+ [["part_init"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
+ ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "primary"; "1"; "-1"]]);
+ InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
+ [["part_init"; "/dev/sda"; "gpt"];
+ ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "primary"; "34"; "127"];
+ ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "primary"; "128"; "-34"]]);
+ InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
+ [["part_init"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
+ ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "primary"; "32"; "127"];
+ ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "primary"; "128"; "255"];
+ ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "primary"; "256"; "511"];
+ ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "primary"; "512"; "-1"]])],
+ "add a partition to the device",
+ "\
+This command adds a partition to C<device>. If there is no partition
+table on the device, call C<guestfs_part_init> first.
+
+The C<prlogex> parameter is the type of partition. Normally you
+should pass C<p> or C<primary> here, but MBR partition tables also
+support C<l> (or C<logical>) and C<e> (or C<extended>) partition
+types.
+
+C<startsect> and C<endsect> are the start and end of the partition
+in I<sectors>. C<endsect> may be negative, which means it counts
+backwards from the end of the disk (C<-1> is the last sector).
+
+Creating a partition which covers the whole disk is not so easy.
+Use C<guestfs_part_disk> to do that.");
+
+ ("part_disk", (RErr, [Device "device"; String "parttype"]), 210, [DangerWillRobinson],
+ [InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
+ [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"]]);
+ InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
+ [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "gpt"]])],
+ "partition whole disk with a single primary partition",
+ "\
+This command is simply a combination of C<guestfs_part_init>
+followed by C<guestfs_part_add> to create a single primary partition
+covering the whole disk.
+
+C<parttype> is the partition table type, usually C<mbr> or C<gpt>,
+but other possible values are described in C<guestfs_part_init>.");
+
+ ("part_set_bootable", (RErr, [Device "device"; Int "partnum"; Bool "bootable"]), 211, [],
+ [InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
+ [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
+ ["part_set_bootable"; "/dev/sda"; "1"; "true"]])],
+ "make a partition bootable",
+ "\
+This sets the bootable flag on partition numbered C<partnum> on
+device C<device>. Note that partitions are numbered from 1.
+
+The bootable flag is used by some PC BIOSes to determine which
+partition to boot from. It is by no means universally recognized,
+and in any case if your operating system installed a boot
+sector on the device itself, then that takes precedence.");
+
+ ("part_set_name", (RErr, [Device "device"; Int "partnum"; String "name"]), 212, [],
+ [InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
+ [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "gpt"];
+ ["part_set_name"; "/dev/sda"; "1"; "thepartname"]])],
+ "set partition name",
+ "\
+This sets the partition name on partition numbered C<partnum> on
+device C<device>. Note that partitions are numbered from 1.
+
+The partition name can only be set on certain types of partition
+table. This works on C<gpt> but not on C<mbr> partitions.");
+
+ ("part_list", (RStructList ("partitions", "partition"), [Device "device"]), 213, [],
+ [], (* XXX Add a regression test for this. *)
+ "list partitions on a device",
+ "\
+This command parses the partition table on C<device> and
+returns the list of partitions found.
+
+The fields in the returned structure are:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<part_num>
+
+Partition number, counting from 1.
+
+=item B<part_start>
+
+Start of the partition I<in bytes>. To get sectors you have to
+divide by the device's sector size, see C<guestfs_blockdev_getss>.
+
+=item B<part_end>
+
+End of the partition in bytes.
+
+=item B<part_size>
+
+Size of the partition in bytes.
+
+=back");
+
+ ("part_get_parttype", (RString "parttype", [Device "device"]), 214, [],
+ [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutput (
+ [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "gpt"];
+ ["part_get_parttype"; "/dev/sda"]], "gpt")],
+ "get the partition table type",
+ "\
+This command examines the partition table on C<device> and
+returns the partition table type (format) being used.
+
+Common return values include: C<msdos> (a DOS/Windows style MBR
+partition table), C<gpt> (a GPT/EFI-style partition table). Other
+values are possible, although unusual. See C<guestfs_part_init>
+for a full list.");
+
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