ocaml: Translate C examples into OCaml and include documentation.

[libguestfs.git] / src / guestfs.pod

diff --git a/src/guestfs.pod b/src/guestfs.pod
index b50f608..3f40d76 100644 (file)
--- a/src/guestfs.pod
+++ b/src/guestfs.pod
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ need enough permissions to access the disk images.
 Libguestfs is a large API because it can do many things.  For a gentle
 introduction, please read the L</API OVERVIEW> section next.
 
+There are also some example programs in the L<guestfs-examples(3)>
+manual page.
+
 =head1 API OVERVIEW
 
 This section provides a gentler overview of the libguestfs API.  We
@@ -576,7 +579,9 @@ inspection and caches the results in the guest handle.  Subsequent
 calls to C<guestfs_inspect_get_*> return this cached information, but
 I<do not> re-read the disks.  If you change the content of the guest
 disks, you can redo inspection by calling L</guestfs_inspect_os>
-again.
+again.  (L</guestfs_inspect_list_applications> works a little
+differently from the other calls and does read the disks.  See
+documentation for that function for details).
 
 =head2 SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR WINDOWS GUESTS
 
@@ -652,7 +657,7 @@ with libguestfs.
 
 =item B<OCaml>
 
-For documentation see the file C<guestfs.mli>.
+For documentation see L<guestfs-ocaml(3)>.
 
 =item B<Perl>
 
@@ -1093,6 +1098,14 @@ data.  Callers should be careful to escape these before printing them
 to a structured file (for example, use HTML escaping if creating a web
 page).
 
+Guest configuration may be altered in unusual ways by the
+administrator of the virtual machine, and may not reflect reality
+(particularly for untrusted or actively malicious guests).  For
+example we parse the hostname from configuration files like
+C</etc/sysconfig/network> that we find in the guest, but the guest
+administrator can easily manipulate these files to provide the wrong
+hostname.
+
 The inspection API parses guest configuration using two external
 libraries: Augeas (Linux configuration) and hivex (Windows Registry).
 Both are designed to be robust in the face of malicious data, although
@@ -2073,11 +2086,14 @@ enough.
 
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
+L<guestfs-examples(3)>,
+L<guestfs-ocaml(3)>,
 L<guestfish(1)>,
 L<guestmount(1)>,
 L<virt-cat(1)>,
 L<virt-df(1)>,
 L<virt-edit(1)>,
+L<virt-filesystems(1)>,
 L<virt-inspector(1)>,
 L<virt-list-filesystems(1)>,
 L<virt-list-partitions(1)>,