Review every test(!) to ensure that it:
- Doesn't use a generic name (eg. "test1.img", "test.out") for any
temporary file it needs.
- Does instead use a unique name or a temporary name (eg. a name like
"name-of-the-test.img", or a scratch disk).
- Does not use 'rm -f' to clean up its temporary files (so we can
detect errors if the wrong temporary file is created or removed).
This allows tests to be run in parallel, so they don't stomp on each
other's temporary files.
Add a remote drive by doing:
guestfish -a ssh://example.com/path/to/disk.img
There are several different protocols supported, as explained in the
man page.
This affects all virt-* tools that use the common guestfish options
parsing code.
It's simpler to use the glibc 'program_invocation_short_name(3)'
feature, and fall back to a generic solution. Also remove risky
assignments to argv[0].
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.
For example:
$ guestfish --long-options
--add
--cmd-help
--connect
--csh
--domain
--echo-keys
[etc.]
The idea of this is to make it easier to write a bash completion
script that accurately expands --<TAB> options for each command.
The libutils convenience library is a place for code shared between
the main library, language bindings and virt tools. Note that the
code is statically linked into both the library, each binding and each
tool, but this is an improvement because (a) the source is shared and
(b) libguestfs.so can export fewer private functions.
Currently it contains the cleanup functions, and the functions
guestfs___free_string_list function and guestfs___for_each_disk.
guestfs___for_each_disk has changed so that it no longer
unconditionally sets the error in the guestfs handle. Instead callers
can control error handling.
Not to be confused with the libxml2 macro 'BAD_CAST' which converts
from 'signed char *' to 'unsigned char *'.
The 'bad_cast' function was defined and used all over the place as a
replacement for a '(char *)' cast. I think it is better to make these
casts explicit, instead of hiding them in an obscure function.
These configure flags enable code profiling (with gprof) and code
coverage (with gcov) respectively.
Although this is a nice idea, it's not currently very useful.
Libtool mangles filenames in such a way that gcov cannot locate its
datafiles.
Profiling is of dubious utility with libguestfs which is not CPU-bound
and relies extensively on running external programs (oprofile-like
system profiling that took into account libguestfs + qemu or
libguestfs + qemu + the appliance + filesystem tools *would* be
useful).
Also neither flag will help in capturing data from the appliance.
'make extra-tests' was a monolithic set of tests that did all sorts of
things: valgrind, tests over local guests, tests with upstream qemu,
tests with upstream libvirt, tests with the appliance attach method.
This made it hard to perform individual tests, eg. just valgrind
testing. It was also hard to maintain because the tests were not
located in the same directories as the programs and sometimes
duplicated tests that were run elsewhere.
This commit splits up 'make extra-tests' into 5 separate targets:
make check-valgrind # run a subset of tests under valgrind
make check-valgrind-local-guests # test under valgrind with local guests
make check-with-appliance # test with attach-method == appliance
make check-with-upstream-qemu # test with an alternate/upstream qemu
make check-with-upstream-libvirt # test with an alternate/upstream libvirt
(You can also still run 'make extra-tests' which is now simply
a rule that runs the above 5 targets in order).
This replaces everything that was in the tests/extra directory,
so that has now gone.
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.
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.
In two places, we were counting things in an array using an 'int'. In
theory, the int could overflow, so gcc determines this to be undefined
behaviour.
The fix is to use size_t or ssize_t instead.
erase the filesystem signatures on each device, then erase
the partitions, avoid to list all the partitions here.
Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com>
