+ ("set_trace", (RErr, [Bool "trace"]), -1, [FishAlias "trace"],
+ [InitNone, Always, TestOutputTrue (
+ [["set_trace"; "true"];
+ ["get_trace"]])],
+ "enable or disable command traces",
+ "\
+If the command trace flag is set to 1, then commands are
+printed on stdout before they are executed in a format
+which is very similar to the one used by guestfish. In
+other words, you can run a program with this enabled, and
+you will get out a script which you can feed to guestfish
+to perform the same set of actions.
+
+If you want to trace C API calls into libguestfs (and
+other libraries) then possibly a better way is to use
+the external ltrace(1) command.
+
+Command traces are disabled unless the environment variable
+C<LIBGUESTFS_TRACE> is defined and set to C<1>.");
+
+ ("get_trace", (RBool "trace", []), -1, [],
+ [],
+ "get command trace enabled flag",
+ "\
+Return the command trace flag.");
+