Rename guestfs_safe_malloc et al to guestfs___safe_malloc etc.
To use the private functions, code now has to define
-DGUESTFS_PRIVATE_FUNCTIONS=1. This will make it easier for us in
future to work out which programs are using these functions and to
minimize both the number of programs and the functions they are
calling.
Note that the Perl, Python, OCaml, Ruby and Java bindings use
guestfs_safe_* calls. None of the other bindings do. This is a bug
(in the bindings using those functions): these functions will call the
out of memory callback on failure. This function defaults to abort(),
and since this happens from a language binding, there is no way to
change this default.
guestfs_parse_environment_list.
Add a new function for creating a handle:
guestfs_h *guestfs_create_flags (unsigned flags [, ...]);
This variant lets you supply flags and extra arguments, although extra
arguments are not used at the moment.
Of particular interest is the ability to separate the creation of the
handle from the parsing of environment variables like
LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG. guestfs_create does both together, which prevents
us from propagating errors from parsing environment variables back to
the caller (guestfs_create has always printed any errors on stderr and
then just ignored them).
If you are interested in these errors, you can now write:
g = guestfs_create_flags (GUESTFS_CREATE_NO_ENVIRONMENT);
if (!g)
exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
r = guestfs_parse_environment (g);
if (!r)
exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
Also you can *omit* the call to guestfs_parse_environment, which
creates a handle unaffected by the environment (which was not possible
before).
This commit also includes new (backwards compatible) changes to the
OCaml, Perl, Python, Ruby and Java constructors that let you use the
flags.
This is a simple renaming of the files/modules.
Note that in OCaml, module names are derived from filenames by
capitalizing the first letter. Thus the old module names had the form
"Generator_api_versions". The new modules names have the form
"Api_versions".
