Bug: write_file doesn't work with strings containing ASCII NUL.

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/BUGS b/BUGS
index 60bb52e5..ba72ad28 100644
--- a/BUGS
+++ b/BUGS
@@ -49,3 +49,5 @@ Setting PATH to include /usr/sbin solves this temporarily.
 "internal error: reply callback called twice"
 This bug is rare but well-understood.  Unfortunately it's also
 quite hard to fix cleanly.
+
+[libguestfs] write-file does not support strings containing ASCII NUL.
diff --git a/src/generator.ml b/src/generator.ml
index ef8b3aa0..4679add0 100755
--- a/src/generator.ml
+++ b/src/generator.ml
@@ -1053,7 +1053,12 @@ with length C<size>.
 
 As a special case, if C<size> is C<0>
 then the length is calculated using C<strlen> (so in this case
-the content cannot contain embedded ASCII NULs).");
+the content cannot contain embedded ASCII NULs).
+
+I<NB.> Owing to a bug, writing content containing ASCII NUL
+characters does I<not> work, even if the length is specified.
+We hope to resolve this bug in a future version.  In the meantime
+use C<guestfs_upload>.");
 
   ("umount", (RErr, [String "pathordevice"]), 45, [FishAlias "unmount"],
    [InitEmpty, TestOutputList (
@@ -3815,6 +3820,7 @@ and c_quote str =
   let str = replace_str str "\r" "\\r" in
   let str = replace_str str "\n" "\\n" in
   let str = replace_str str "\t" "\\t" in
+  let str = replace_str str "\000" "\\0" in
   str
 
 (* Generate a lot of different functions for guestfish. *)