For OCaml tools this does essentially nothing useful because the
--help output is automatically generated from the options, and so
cannot be wrong. However for C tools this is a useful check.
It would be nice to generate C tools --help output, but there isn't
enough information in the getopt data to do that.
This commit also includes fixes to the --help output for a few tools.
podcheck.pl is run as part of the tests to perform various checks on
the documentation and the tool.
Currently we check only that the documented options matches the
options that the tool implements and vice versa. This commit would
also allow us (in future) to check --help, --long-options,
--short-options, --version output.
This commit includes scripts to run the tests and various fixes to the
manual pages to ensure that the tests pass.
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.
Improve the error messages produced by C-based tools in case of issues
with the command line options:
- explicitly mention to use -a/-d (and -A/-D in virt-diff)
- when extra arguments are found, mention the correct way to pass
options to certain command line switches (like --format)
- in virt-inspector, give a cleaner error message when neither -i nor
any -m is specified
In all the cases, keep the extra notice to use 'TOOL --help' to get more
help with it.
Like with the previous commit, this replaces instances of:
if (something_bad) {
fprintf (stderr, "%s: error message\n", guestfs_int_program_name);
exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
}
with:
if (something_bad)
error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, "error message");
(except in a few cases were errno was incorrectly being ignored, in
which case I have fixed that).
It's slightly more complex than the previous commit because we must be
careful to:
- Remove the program name (since error(3) prints it).
- Remove any trailing \n character from the message.
Candidates for replacement were found using:
pcregrep --buffer-size 10M -M '\bfprintf\b.*\n.*\bexit\b' `git ls-files`
Wherever we had code which did:
if (something_bad) {
perror (...);
exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
}
replace this with use of the error(3) function:
if (something_bad)
error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, ...);
The error(3) function is supplied by glibc, or by gnulib on platforms
which don't have it, and is much more flexible than perror(3). Since
we already use error(3), there seems to be no downside to mandating it
everywhere.
Note there is one nasty catch with error(3): error (EXIT_SUCCESS, ...)
does *not* exit! This is also the reason why error(3) cannot be
marked as __attribute__((noreturn)).
Because the examples can't use gnulib, I did not change them.
To search for multiline patterns of the above form, pcregrep -M turns
out to be very useful:
pcregrep --buffer-size 10M -M '\bperror\b.*\n.*\bexit\b' `git ls-files`
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.
Because of previous automated commits, such as changing 'guestfs___'
-> 'guestfs_int_', several function calls no longer lined up with
their parameters, and some lines were too long.
The bulk of this commit was done using emacs batch mode and the
technique described here:
http://www.cslab.pepperdine.edu/warford/BatchIndentationEmacs.html
The changes suggested by emacs were then reviewed by hand.
Done using a sequence of regular expressions like this:
perl -pi.bak -e 's{C</}{F</}g' `git ls-files \*.pod` generator/actions.ml
perl -pi.bak -e 's{C<C:\\}{F<C:\\}g' `git ls-files \*.pod` generator/actions.ml
[etc]
and then tediously checking every change by hand.
libguestfs has used double and triple underscores in identifiers.
These aren't valid for global names in C++.
The first step is to replace all guestfs___* (3 underscores) with
guestfs_int_*. We've used guestfs_int_* elsewhere already as a prefix
for internal identifiers.
This is an entirely mechanical change done using:
git ls-files | xargs perl -pi.bak -e 's/guestfs___/guestfs_int_/g'
Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/a/228797
The gnulib 'error' module uses 'program_name'. On some platforms --
but not Linux / glibc -- it references it as:
extern char *program_name;
This means when you compile libguestfs on non-glibc (eg. Mac OS X)
gnulib requires 'program_name' as an external string reference, which
we don't provide.
This change doesn't define this string reference for gnulib, but it
does change the name of the macro we use to avoid conflicts if we
eventually need to export 'program_name' as a string.
Thanks: Margaret Lewicka
Just like --long-options, it makes it possible to know which short
options are supported by each tool; this can help improving the bash
completion, for example.
All tests run under the ./run binary. For a long time the ./run
binary has set the $PATH environment variable to contain all of the
directories with binaries in them.
Therefore there is no reason to use ../fish/guestfish instead of just
plain guestfish (and the same applies to other built binaries).
In most C tools, virt-sysprep and virt-customize, you have to put the
--format parameter before the corresponding -a parameter. ie. The
following is correct:
guestfish --format qcow2 -a disk1 -a disk2
But the following is incorrect. The --format parameter is dangling
and prior to this commit would have been silently ignored:
guestfish -a disk1 -a disk2 --format qcow2
After this change, dangling --format parameters now lead to an error:
guestfish: --format parameter must appear before -a parameter
In virt-customize, also check that --attach-format parameter appears
before --attach parameter.
Thanks: Lingfei Kong
Allow null as value for the editor parameter of edit_file_editor, which
will then get it from the EDITOR envvar (falling back on vi).
This is basically code motion from the two edit_file_editor users to it.
Do not unconditionally exit if guestfs_case_sensitive_path, but let
windows_path still return null. Make virt-edit then check for that, and
eventually exit on its own.
Move the code handling Windows paths from virt-edit to a common file,
so that can be shared by various tools.
Mostly code motion, with a minimum touch (the additional guestfs_h*
parameter in mount_drive_letter) to make it build and work.
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.
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.
