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Since we as developers rarely test the case where some library is
statically not available, that side of the code was hardly tested,
except by unfortunate users in the field who often hit cases where
functions were missing or misdeclared. In fact, when making this
change I noticed several bugs like that.
Change it so that this code is autogenerated, and therefore always
correct and up to date.
Previous code which looked like this:
int
optgroup_acl_available (void)
{
return 0;
}
char * __attribute__((noreturn))
do_acl_get_file (const char *path, const char *acltype)
{
abort ();
}
/* etc */
is replaced by a single line:
OPTGROUP_ACL_NOT_AVAILABLE
This program generates a large amount of code and documentation for all the daemon actions. To add a new action there are only two files you need to change, 'actions.ml' to describe the interface, and daemon/<somefile>.c to write the implementation. After editing these files, build it (make -C generator) to regenerate all the output files. 'make' will rerun this automatically when necessary. IMPORTANT: This program should NOT print any warnings at compile time or run time. If it prints warnings, you should treat them as errors. OCaml tips: (1) In emacs, install tuareg-mode to display and format OCaml code correctly. 'vim' comes with a good OCaml editing mode by default. (2) Read the resources at http://ocaml-tutorial.org/ (3) A module called 'Foo' is defined in one or two files called 'foo.mli' and 'foo.ml' (NB: lowercase first letter). The *.mli file, if present, defines the public interface for the module. The *.ml file is the implementation. If the *.mli file is missing then everything is exported. Some notable files in this directory: actions.ml The libguestfs API. structs.ml Structures returned by the API. c.ml Generate C API. <lang>.ml Generate bindings for <lang>. main.ml The main generator program. Note about long descriptions: When referring to another action, use the format C<guestfs_other> (ie. the full name of the C function). This will be replaced as appropriate in other language bindings. Apart from that, long descriptions are just perldoc paragraphs. Note about extending functions: In general you cannot change the name, number of required arguments or type of required arguments of a function, since this would break backwards compatibility. You may add another optional argument, *if* the function has >= 1 optional arguments already. Add it at the end of the list. You may add optional arguments to a function that doesn't have any. However you *must* set the once_had_no_optargs flag to true, so that the relevant backwards compatibility bindings can be added.