They will be removed in libguestfs 1.58 (the next but one version).
Currently they don't actually compile. The larger problem is that
they don't handle 64 bit quantities properly (using floats instead),
meaning that any disk size or offset above a certain size will be
improperly passed through the API, usually rounded to the nearest
53 bits.
Run this command across the source:
perl -pi.bak -e 's/(20[012][0-9])-20[12][012]/$1-2023/g' `git ls-files`
and remove changes to po{,-docs}/*.po{,t} (these will be regenerated
later when we run 'make dist').
By adding common CLEANFILES and DISTCLEANFILES variables to
common-rules.mk, we can remove these from most other Makefiles, and
also clean files more consistently.
Note that bin_PROGRAMS are already cleaned by 'make clean', so I
removed cases where these were unnecessarily added to CLEANFILES.
Remove man pages and other pages which 'make clean' did not remove
before.
To evaluate which pages could be removed, I did a full build and
check, and then ran 'make clean' followed by 'git clean -xdf'. By
examining the output of the git clean command I could see which files
were being missed.
Files that are _not_ removed by make clean or make distclean:
- generator-built files
- Makefile, Makefile.in, .deps, .depend
- any ./configure output files (maybe they should be?)
Move the random set of HTML files we build from html/ into
the website/ directory.
Also in the website/ directory, put the index.html file from
http://libguestfs.org, which was previously not under version control.
It is generated from index.html.in so we can automatically add the
current version and release date.
Also in the website/ directory, put various CSS file, images, etc.
which are required by the website and were also previously not under
version control.
Change the 'make website' rule to 'make maintainer-upload-website'.
As the name suggests, it is only useful for the maintainer, and will
fail with an error for anyone else.
Instead of hardcoding the location of perl (assuming it is installed in
/usr), use /usr/bin/env to run it, and thus picking it from $PATH.
This makes it possible to run these scripts also on installations with
perl in a different prefix than /usr.
Also, given that we want enable warnings on scripts, turn the -w
previously in shebang to explicit "use warnings;" in scripts which
didn't have it before.
This changes podwrapper so that the input (POD) files should not
contain an =encoding directive. However they must be UTF-8.
Podwrapper then adds the '=encoding utf8' directive back during final
generation.
This in particular avoids problems with nested =encoding directives in
fragments. These break POD, and are undesirable anyway.
This file is mainly a central place to:
- include localenv if it exists, and
- define the RHEL 5 backwards compatibility macros, instead of
spreading them over every other file.
This adds standard LICENSE and BUGS sections to all of the man pages
that are processed by podwrapper.
Modify all the calls to $(PODWRAPPER) to add the right --license
parameter according to the content. Note that this relaxes the
license on some code example pages, making them effectively BSD-style
licensed.
section.
Ensure each man page contains consistent COPYRIGHT and AUTHOR
sections.
Remove the LICENSE section. We will add that back in podwrapper in a
later commit.
Since our minimum supported version is now 1.16 and mount was fixed in
1.13.16, it is now safe to replace mount-options + empty options with
mount wherever it occurs.
In libguestfs 1.20, you will be able to use 'add_drive'
instead of 'add_drive_opts' (except in the C bindings).
However until libguestfs 1.20 is the minimum stable version
people will still be using old versions where you have to use
'add_drive_opts'. This makes the examples confusing.
Therefore continue to use 'add_drive_opts' in the examples
for now.
By using the once_had_no_optargs flag, this change is backwards
compatible for callers (except Haskell, PHP and GObject as discussed
in earlier commit).
The new API splits orderly close into a two-step process:
if (guestfs_shutdown (g) == -1) {
/* handle the error, eg. qemu error */
}
guestfs_close (g);
Note that the explicit shutdown step is only necessary in the case
where you have made changes to the disk image and want to handle write
errors. Read the documentation for further information.
This change also:
- deprecates guestfs_kill_subprocess
- turns guestfs_kill_subprocess into the same as guestfs_shutdown
- changes guestfish and other tools to call shutdown + close
where necessary (not for read-only tools)
- updates documentation
- updates examples
This large commit changes the generator so that optional arguments
can be supported for functions.
The model for arguments (known as the "style") is changed from
(ret, args) to (ret, args, optargs) where optargs is a more limited
list of arguments.
One function has been added which takes optional arguments, it is
"add-drive-opts", modelled as:
(RErr, [String "filename"], #required
[Bool "readonly"; String "format"; String "iface"]) #optional
Note that this function is processed in the library (does not go over
the RPC protocol to the daemon). This has allowed us to simplify
the current implementation by omitting changes related to RPC or the
daemon, although we plan to add these at some point in the future.
From C this function can be called in 3 different ways as in these
examples:
guestfs_add_drive_opts (g, filename,
GUESTFS_ADD_DRIVE_OPTS_READONLY, 1,
GUESTFS_ADD_DRIVE_OPTS_FORMAT, "raw",
-1);
(the argument(s) between 'filename' and '-1' are the optional ones).
guestfs_add_drive_opts_va (g, filename, args);
where 'args' is a va_list. This works like the first version.
struct guestfs_add_drive_opts_argv optargs = {
.bitmask = GUESTFS_ADD_DRIVE_OPTS_READONLY_BITMASK,
.readonly = 1,
}
guestfs_add_drive_opts_argv (g, filename, &optargs);
This last form lets you construct lists of optional arguments, and
is used by guestfish and the language bindings.
In guestfish optional arguments are used like this:
add-drive-opts filename readonly:true
In OCaml these are mapped naturally to OCaml optional arguments, eg:
g#add_drive_opts ~readonly:true filename;
In Perl these are mapped to extra arguments, eg:
$g->add_drive_opts ($filename, readonly => 1);
In Python these are mapped to optional arguments, eg:
g.add_drive_opts ("file", readonly = 1, format = "qcow2")
In Ruby these are mapped to a final hash argument, eg:
g.add_drive_opts("file", {})
g.add_drive_opts("file", :readonly => 1)
g.add_drive_opts("file", :readonly => 1, :iface => "virtio")
In PHP these are mapped to extra parameters. This is not quite
accurate since you cannot omit arbitrary optional parameters, but
there's not much than can be done within the limitations of PHP
as a language.
Unimplemented in: Haskell, C#, Java.
This commit changes guestfs_launch so that it both launches
the appliance and waits until it is ready (ie. the daemon communicates
back to us).
Since we removed the pretence that we could implement a low-level
asynchronous API, the need to call launch() followed by wait_ready()
has looked a bit silly.
Now guestfs_wait_ready() is basically a no-op. It is left in the
API for backwards compatibility. Any calls to guestfs_wait_ready()
can be removed from client code.
