X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=5b4c8432e2e54548eddc0de23e92afd0d943b664;hp=2109e1dfd5bf227162f41582d573757e4f2dfcfd;hb=2600359b9b520ab386f069fbbcd656e5cdbd9b76;hpb=8f382fd9e7b1745a4b1d6f25f0a775bed2573b8e diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 2109e1d..5b4c843 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -120,17 +120,15 @@ Extra commands / functionality: chgrp grep (do it locally using pipe?) dd (?) - du ln / ln -s - mknod readlink utime / utimes / futimes / futimens / l.. - mkfifo more mk*temp calls - readdir / readdir-and-stat some sort of alloc/fallocate/posix_fallocate call to create empty space realpath trunc[ate??] + getfattr (also useful because gives us access to NTFS datastreams) + setfattr ext2 properties: chattr @@ -158,3 +156,33 @@ Extra commands / functionality: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Allow swap space from the guest to be used. Is it a good idea? + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Need a way to query a binary or library file for its architecture. +Using objdump or readelf? +What about non-ELF files (eg. Windows, BSD). + +To do this properly requires some serious logic, eg. to cover Linux +and Windows we'd need objdump and i686-pc-mingw32-objdump, and more to +cover a.out, COFF and 64 bit Windows. Therefore this cannot be done +inside the daemon, and should be done by a separate, external program +similar to virt-inspector. + +Probably we should go all the way and have virt-inspector able to +determine kernel and userspace architectures of guests. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Other initrd-* commands, such as: + +initrd-extract +initrd-replace + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Control guestfish from a pipe. + +For shell scripts - they can start up a long-running guestfish process +and intermittently send it commands. Avoids the start-up overhead, +but how do we reliably signal errors? \ No newline at end of file