X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=BUGS;h=fca690901dfb5795c837a7c9962a1a7d57b169ac;hp=16a12181a5b2bb5a69de821a4d7133d197929148;hb=1fc41b39dac877ccec1284da8bb14baa4df368b8;hpb=ae5be84decf1a40e1de22176c747e110b77829a2 diff --git a/BUGS b/BUGS index 16a1218..fca6909 100644 --- a/BUGS +++ b/BUGS @@ -17,4 +17,55 @@ time it takes to launch the subprocess (although it does still work). [fixed - was a KVM bug] [java] Java bindings documentation messed up. See: -http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingdoccomments/ \ No newline at end of file +http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingdoccomments/ + +[libguestfs] If qemu process is a shell script, then it is not cleaned +up correctly, even on "good" exit. This is because we need to set up +a new process group (see commented code for doing setpgid). +[fixed? - added documentation in the manual page that you have to +do 'exec qemu' in the wrapper. However I still notice that the +recovery process kills qemu, instead of it being killed by the +parent process, or at least that's what I think is happening] + +[libguestfs] Some occasional data corruption, certainly on tgz-out. +Try using tgz-out on a very large directory. +[we think this is fixed by 64a6a828bd318622420cf3018899392fd80c14e7] + +[libguestfs] futimens (do_touch) not available in glibc 2.5 +(reported by Charles Duffy) +[fixed] + +[ocaml] Does not compile with OCaml 3.09.3 from RHEL 5 +(reported by Charles Duffy) +[fixed] + +[inspector] If there are missing Perl module deps, it still +configures the inspector. (eg. if perl-Sys-Virt is missing). + +[build] "exec: chroot not found" +Setting PATH to include /usr/sbin solves this temporarily. + +[libguestfs] FileOut parameters can cause +"internal error: reply callback called twice" +This bug is rare but well-understood. Unfortunately it's also +quite hard to fix cleanly. + +[libguestfs] write-file does not support strings containing ASCII NUL. + +[perl] Perl bindings cause a segfault when you call any command which +takes a StringList (eg. $g->command). +[should be fixed now] + +[libguestfs] OptString parameters in the bindings are often not +handled correctly. For example in OCaml (but this is NOT exclusive +to OCaml), OptString should become 'string option'. + +[libguestfs] Certain functions such as 'set-path' can take NULL +parameters, but the parameters are not OptString. + +[tests] command and command-lines tests fail if test-command binary +cannot be statically linked by libtool. The workaround is to install +glibc-static. + +[tests] Should be possible to conditionally skip tests based on a +runtime check.