X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=5b4c8432e2e54548eddc0de23e92afd0d943b664;hp=b3860b1f0beda66c93e42cfd40b617d33b445aad;hb=35cf94c61f9f5e15a4e218bdaedba77c36aa4e5b;hpb=ca5239918ce6de45a694610a11678cadc20cf2fb diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index b3860b1..5b4c843 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -114,8 +114,75 @@ Supermin appliance should be moved into febootstrap. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -guestfish -i (runs inspector) +Extra commands / functionality: + + General glibc / core programs: + chgrp + grep (do it locally using pipe?) + dd (?) + ln / ln -s + readlink + utime / utimes / futimes / futimens / l.. + more mk*temp calls + 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 + lsattr + badblocks + blkid + debugfs + dumpe2fs + e2image + e2undo + filefrag + findfs + logsave + mklost+found + + SELinux: + chcat + restorecon + ch??? + + Oddball: + pivot_root + fts(3) / ftw(3) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -guestfish -f +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