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author | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2011-08-12 11:08:57 +0100 |
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committer | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2011-08-17 13:05:23 +0100 |
commit | 7f35002e2301478b602e6d6c890508c25e153d71 (patch) | |
tree | 515fffe279c443696b522fc873e73d0c5c46c349 | |
parent | 1ba3852b750cd448de35e110c607c0e4d5f1ae36 (diff) | |
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fish: Document that remote run in cmd substitution context hangs.
This documents bug 592910.
(cherry picked from commit 6cabc1cd02e181063596b48df55c3f6db51a6bb9)
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diff --git a/fish/guestfish.pod b/fish/guestfish.pod index 94deb9cc..21680c71 100644 --- a/fish/guestfish.pod +++ b/fish/guestfish.pod @@ -913,6 +913,17 @@ user ID of the process, and C<$PID> is the process ID of the server. Guestfish client and server versions must match exactly. +=head2 REMOTE CONTROL RUN COMMAND HANGING + +Using the C<run> (or C<launch>) command remotely in a command +substitution context hangs, ie. don't do (note the backquotes): + + a=`guestfish --remote run` + +Since the C<run> command produces no output on stdout, this is not +useful anyway. For further information see +L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592910>. + =head1 PREPARED DISK IMAGES Use the I<-N type> or I<--new type> parameter to select one of a set |