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authorRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2011-08-12 11:08:57 +0100
committerRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2011-08-17 13:04:38 +0100
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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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@@ -973,6 +973,17 @@ 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