When possible, make the disk image format explicit when invoking tools
or using add-drive. This avoids warnings from qemu about the unspecified
format for the image, and also makes qemu slightly faster (skipping the
disk image probing).
Tests checking the image probing are not touched.
This changes also:
- old-style invocations of tools (`$tool $filename`) into new style
(`$tool -a $filename`)
- add-drive-ro/add-drive-with-if guestfish commands into add/add-drive
with explicit readonly/iface arguments
There should be no change in the tests results.
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.
Create a new top-level directory called test-data, which will carry
all the test data which is large and/or shared between multiple tests.
There are actually several new subdirectories created:
test-data/binaries: The pre-built binary and library files for random
architectures that we use to test various architecture detection
features (was part of tests/data).
test-data/blank-disks: The blank disks which are used for disk format
detection (was part of tests/data).
test-data/files: Other miscellaneous test files from tests/data that
are not included in the above.
test-data/phony-guests: The phony guests (was tests/guests).
test-data: The top-level directory builds the 'test.iso' image file
that is used for testing the C API and in miscellaneous other tests.
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.
Strictly speaking this reduces the number of formats that virt-make-fs
can output to, but it's likely that no one cares and if they do we can
add new formats in future.
This API is an easier to use version of the existing guestfs_available,
because the new API returns true/false instead of throwing an error
when a feature from the list is not available.
In truth we've had this implementation internally in the library
and several tools and in Sys::Guestfs::Lib for a long time. This
change just turns it into a publicly consumable API.
Don't assume that if guestfs_case_sensitive_path returns NULL, that it
means the file does not exist.
The (previously undefined) behaviour of case_sensitive_path was that a
NULL return meant "either the file doesn't exist or some other error".
However in commit 973581780d this was
changed so that if the last element of the path didn't exist, it was
assumed to be a new file and the (non-NULL) path of the new file is
returned.
This change breaks code (including in libguestfs) which tries to use
case_sensitive_path as a dual-purpose call to fix-up a path for
Windows and test if the file exists. Such code should be rewritten so
that it explicitly tests for file existence after calling
case_sensitive_path.
I examined all the calls to case_sensitive_path in libguestfs and
modified them where necessary.
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.
The compress flag can be used to control compression, one of: (none),
"compress", "gzip", "bzip2", "xz", "lzop". Thus these calls can now
be used instead of tgz-in/tgz-out/txz-in/txz-out, and also support
more compression types.
Mark these APIs as once_had_no_optargs so that compatibility code is
generated.
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
MALLOC_PERTURB_ is a glibc feature which causes malloc to wipe memory
before and after it is used, allowing both use-after-free and
uninitialized reads to be detected with relatively little performance
penalty:
http://udrepper.livejournal.com/11429.html?nojs=1
Modify the ./run script so that it always sets this.
We were already using MALLOC_PERTURB_ in most tests. Since ./run is
now setting this, we can remove it from individual Makefiles. Most
TESTS_ENVIRONMENT will now simply look like this:
TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = $(top_builddir)/run --test
This option, when added via
TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = [...] $(top_builddir)/run --test
allows us to run the tests and only print the full output (including
debugging etc) when the test fails.
