todo: Remove obsolete sections from the TODO file.

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@@ -43,46 +43,6 @@ data, at least partially.  This would be just another output type so:
 Note that recent versions of libvirt/virt-install allow guests to be
 imported, so this is not so useful any more.
 
-"Standalone/local mode"
------------------------
-
-Instead of running guestfsd (the daemon) inside qemu, there should be
-an option to just run guestfsd directly.
-
-The architecture in this mode would look like:
-
-     +------------------+
-     | main program     |
-     |------------------|
-     | libguestfs       |
-     +--------^---------+
-          |   | reply
-      cmd |   |
-     +----v-------------+
-     | guestfsd         |
-     +------------------+
-
-Notes:
-
-(1) This only makes sense if we are running as root.
-
-(2) There is no console / kernel messages in this configuration, but
-we might consider capturing stderr from the daemon.
-
-(3) guestfs_config and guestfs_add_drive become no-ops.
-
-Obviously in this configuration, commands are run directly on the
-local machine's disks.  You could just run the commands themselves
-directly, but libguestfs provides a convenient API and language
-bindings.  Also deals with tricky stuff like parsing the output of the
-LVM commands.  Also we get to leverage other code such as
-virt-inspector.
-
-This is mainly useful from live CDs, ie. virt-p2v.
-
-Should we bother having the daemon at all and just link the guestfsd
-code directly into libguestfs?
-
 Ideas for extra commands
 ------------------------
 
@@ -99,8 +59,6 @@ Ideas for extra commands
     e2image
     e2undo
     filefrag
-    findfs
-    logsave
     mklost+found
 
   SELinux:
@@ -120,74 +78,6 @@ Such as:
 initrd-extract
 initrd-replace
 
-Simple editing of configuration files
--------------------------------------
-
-Some easy non-Augeas methods to edit configuration files.
-I'm thinking:
-
-  replace /etc/file key value
-
-which would look in /etc/file for any instances of
-
-  key=...
-  key ...
-  key:...
-
-and replace them with
-
-  key=value
-  key value
-  key:value
-
-That would solve about 50% of reconfiguration needs, and for the
-rest you'd use Augeas, 'download'+'upload' or 'edit'.
-
-RWMJ: I had a go at implementing this, but it's quite error-prone to
-do this sort of editing inside the C-based daemon code.  It's far
-better to do it with Augeas, or else to use an external language like
-Perl.
-
-Quick Perl scripts
-------------------
-
-Currently we can't do Perl "one-liners".  ie. The current syntax for
-any short Perl one-liner would be:
-
-  perl -MSys::Guestfs -e '$g = Sys::Guestfs->new(); $g->add_drive ("foo"); $g->launch; $g->mount ("/dev/sda1", "/"); ....'
-
-You can see we're well beyond a single line just getting to the point
-of adding drives and mounting.
-
-First suggestion:
-
- $h = create ($filename, \"/dev/sda1\" => \"/\");
-
- $h = create ([$file1, $file2], \"/dev/sda1\" => \"/\");
-
-To mount read-only, add C<ro =E<gt> 1> like this:
-
- $h = create ($filename, \"/dev/sda1\" => \"/\", ro => 1);
-
-which is equivalent to the following sequence of calls:
-
- $h = Sys::Guestfs->new ();
- $h->add_drive_ro ($filename);
- $h->launch ();
- $h->mount_ro (\"/dev/sda1\", \"/\");
-
-Command-line form would be:
-
- perl -MSys::Guestfs=:all -e '$_=create("guest.img", "/dev/sda1" => "/"); $_->cat ("/etc/fstab");'
-
-That's not brief enough for one-liners, so we could have an extra
-autogenerated module which creates a Sys::Guestfs handle singleton
-(the handle is an implicit global variable as in guestfish), eg:
-
- perl -MSys::Guestfs::One -e 'inspect("guest.img"); cat ("/etc/fstab");'
-
-How would editing files work?
-
 virt-rescue pty
 ---------------
 
@@ -208,14 +98,6 @@ Windows-based daemon/appliance
 See discussion on list:
 https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-November/msg00165.html
 
-qemu locking
-------------
-
-Add -drive file=...,lock=exclusive and -drive file=...,lock=shared
-
-Change libguestfs and libvirt to do the right thing, so that multiple
-instances of qemu cannot stomp on each other.
-
 virt-disk-explore
 -----------------
 
@@ -256,12 +138,6 @@ http://sourceforge.net/projects/aide/
 http://osiris.shmoo.com/
 http://sourceforge.net/projects/tripwire/
 
-Fix 'file'
-----------
-
-https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-June/msg00053.html
-https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-June/msg00079.html
-
 Freeze/thaw filesystems
 -----------------------
 
@@ -293,13 +169,6 @@ Could we make guestfish interactive if commands are used without params?
 Image name? disk.img
 Size of image? 10M
 
-Common problems
----------------
-
-How can we solve these common user problems?
-
-[space for common problems here]
-
 Better support for encrypted devices
 ------------------------------------
 
@@ -369,12 +238,6 @@ $EDITOR without any corresponding ability to set them.
  echo $EDITOR  # or %{EDITOR}
  edit /etc/resolv.conf
 
-live CD inspection for Windows 7
---------------------------------
-
-Windows 7 install CDs are quite different and pretty impenetrable.
-There are no obvious files to parse.
-
 More ntfs tools
 ---------------
 
@@ -504,23 +367,6 @@ would be some sort of modified attach method (see link above).
 The complexity here is that we would no longer have access to
 stdin/stdout (or we'd have to direct that somewhere else).
 
-GObject Introspection
----------------------
-
-We periodically get asked to implement gobject-introspection (it's a
-GNOME thing):
-
-http://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection
-
-This would require a separate Gtk C API since the main guestfs handle
-would have to be encapsulated in a GObject.  However the main
-difficulty is that the annotations supported to define types are not
-very rich.  Notably missing are support for optional arguments
-(defined but not implemented), support for structs (unless mapped to
-other objects).
-
-Also note that the libguestfs API is not "object oriented".
-
 libosinfo mappings for virt-inspector
 -------------------------------------
 
@@ -615,23 +461,3 @@ TMPDIR should be checked to ensure that we won't run out of space
 during the conversion, since current behaviour is very bad when this
 happens (it usually causes virt-sparsify to hang).  This requires
 writing a small C binding to statvfs for OCaml.
-
-Passing file descriptors using attach-method fd:N
--------------------------------------------------
-
-The idea is that you can pass a file descriptor to the appliance to
-another process, which can then attach to it by setting
-'attach-method' to 'fd:N' (where N = file descriptor).
-
-The process(es) cooperating like this would have to arrange for mutual
-exclusion on the file descriptor, since the protocol itself does not
-and cannot support this.
-
-One issue with this is whether just passing the fd is sufficient, or
-if other fields in the guestfs_h struct need to be passed too.
-Another issue is that the parent process still has to handle
-verbose/debug messages, and has to remain around to regain and kill
-off the appliance at the end.  Thus the parent cannot do much more
-than wait(2) and at the same time select(2) on g->fd.
-
-Virt tools would have to have a new --attach-fd=N option.