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
gettextize provides a local file called "gettext.h". Remove this and
use <libintl.h> from glibc headers instead.
Most of this change is mechanical: #include <libintl.h> in every C
file which uses any gettext function. But also we remove the
gettext.h file, and adjust the "_" macros.
Note that this effectively removes the ./configure --disable-nls
option, although we don't know if that ever worked.
Add FUSE support directly to the API. Instead of needing to use the
external 'guestmount' command, you can mount the libguestfs filesystem
space on a local mountpoint using an API call from any language.
Note that although mount-local-run is marked as Cancellable, the
current implementation does not support it, but it would be relatively
simple to add it.
fuse_main can return any non-zero value on error. In particular on
certain sorts of error such as unsupported -o options it returns 1
(not -1).
Therefore make sure any non-zero return is turned into EXIT_FAILURE.
(Thanks Pádraig Brady)
This avoids conflicts with the globally installed libguestfs
appliance, or lets us build in multiple local directories at the same
time without conflicts.
Turn:
=item B<-a> | B<--all>
into:
=item B<-a>
=item B<--all>
This gives a more natural-looking manual page, as well as making it
easier to directly link to these sections.
This applies in all the commands which use the common C option parsing
code, ie:
* guestfish
* guestmount
* virt-cat
* virt-df
* virt-filesystems
* virt-inspector
* virt-ls
* virt-rescue
Remove the hack that let you run ./fish/guestfish or
./fuse/guestmount. You now have to do:
./run ./fish/guestfish
or
./run ./fuse/guestmount
to run these programs without installing.
* df/df.c: As above.
* df/main.c: As above.
* df/output.c: As above.
* fuse/guestmount.c: As above.
* inspector/virt-inspector.c: As above.
* rescue/virt-rescue.c: As above.
The documentation for the getxattr and listxattr calls is not very
clear and as a result we were always returning something different
from that which the Linux kernel would usually return.
This fixes these calls, at least far enough that both the 'getfattr'
and 'getfacl' programs now work fine on FUSE-mounted filesystems.
Note that SELinux attrs are *not* passed through. This appears to be
a known bug between SELinux and FUSE. For more information see:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/selinux/msg09460.html
This lets you turn on ACLs and xattrs by doing:
-m /dev/sda1:/:acl,user_xattr
The extra parameter is passed through to mount_options:
libguestfs: trace: mount_options "acl,user_xattr" "/dev/sda1" "/"
The other programs have the variable, but the flag is not enabled
either because it doesn't make sense or because the implications are
not well understood.
