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libguestfs/fish/rc_protocol.x
Richard Jones a86aa7d152 Guestfish feature: remote control of guestfish over a pipe.
The use case is to have a long-running guestfish process in
a shell script, and thus to avoid the overhead of starting
guestfish each time.  Do:

 eval `guestfish --listen`

 guestfish --remote somecmd
 guestfish --remote someothercmd
 guestfish --remote exit

This patch also supports having multiple guestfish processes
at the same time.

The protocol is simple XDR messages over a Unix domain socket.
2009-07-14 14:08:31 +01:00

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/* libguestfs - guestfish remote control protocol -*- c -*-
* Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat Inc.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
* with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
* 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
*/
typedef string str<>;
struct guestfish_hello {
/* Client and server version strings must match exactly. We change
* this protocol whenever we want to.
*/
string vers<>;
};
struct guestfish_call {
string cmd<>;
str args<>;
bool exit_on_error;
};
struct guestfish_reply {
int r; /* 0 or -1 only. */
};