Bug: write_file doesn't work with strings containing ASCII NUL.

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Richard Jones
2009-05-08 14:27:02 +01:00
parent 28e18580c2
commit bd7c8ee043
2 changed files with 9 additions and 1 deletions

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BUGS
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@@ -49,3 +49,5 @@ Setting PATH to include /usr/sbin solves this temporarily.
"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.

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@@ -1053,7 +1053,12 @@ with length C<size>.
As a special case, if C<size> is C<0>
then the length is calculated using C<strlen> (so in this case
the content cannot contain embedded ASCII NULs).");
the content cannot contain embedded ASCII NULs).
I<NB.> Owing to a bug, writing content containing ASCII NUL
characters does I<not> work, even if the length is specified.
We hope to resolve this bug in a future version. In the meantime
use C<guestfs_upload>.");
("umount", (RErr, [String "pathordevice"]), 45, [FishAlias "unmount"],
[InitEmpty, TestOutputList (
@@ -3815,6 +3820,7 @@ and c_quote str =
let str = replace_str str "\r" "\\r" in
let str = replace_str str "\n" "\\n" in
let str = replace_str str "\t" "\\t" in
let str = replace_str str "\000" "\\0" in
str
(* Generate a lot of different functions for guestfish. *)