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| author | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2012-11-09 13:34:45 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2012-11-09 13:34:45 +0000 |
| commit | 1586bbb9517f31ba493dc8e909d732bc6e04310e (patch) | |
| tree | 1208a09fc224db95fc9cb70ca45fcb53988cebd7 /fish/guestfish.pod | |
| parent | 1efed122c07792f4c66a4083159cfacfb1893212 (diff) | |
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fish: Update documentation for environment variables.
This fixes commit 1efed122c07792f4c66a4083159cfacfb1893212.
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1 files changed, 22 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fish/guestfish.pod b/fish/guestfish.pod index c57a79a4..01d8044b 100644 --- a/fish/guestfish.pod +++ b/fish/guestfish.pod @@ -1253,6 +1253,17 @@ Pass additional options to the guest kernel. Choose the default way to create the appliance. See L<guestfs(3)/guestfs_set_attach_method>. +=item LIBGUESTFS_CACHEDIR + +The location where libguestfs will cache its appliance, when +using a supermin appliance. The appliance is cached and shared +between all handles which have the same effective user ID. + +If C<LIBGUESTFS_CACHEDIR> is not set, then C<TMPDIR> is used. If +C<TMPDIR> is not set, then C</var/tmp> is used. + +See also L</LIBGUESTFS_TMPDIR>, L</set-cachedir>. + =item LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG Set C<LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1> to enable verbose messages. This has the @@ -1276,6 +1287,16 @@ Set the default qemu binary that libguestfs uses. If not set, then the qemu which was found at compile time by the configure script is used. +=item LIBGUESTFS_TMPDIR + +The location where libguestfs will store temporary files used +by each handle. + +If C<LIBGUESTFS_TMPDIR> is not set, then C<TMPDIR> is used. If +C<TMPDIR> is not set, then C</tmp> is used. + +See also L</LIBGUESTFS_CACHEDIR>, L</set-tmpdir>. + =item LIBGUESTFS_TRACE Set C<LIBGUESTFS_TRACE=1> to enable command traces. @@ -1287,14 +1308,7 @@ set, it uses C<more>. =item TMPDIR -Location of temporary directory, defaults to C</tmp> except for the -cached supermin appliance which defaults to C</var/tmp>. - -If libguestfs was compiled to use the supermin appliance then the -real appliance is cached in this directory, shared between all -handles belonging to the same EUID. You can use C<$TMPDIR> to -configure another directory to use in case C</var/tmp> is not large -enough. +See L</LIBGUESTFS_CACHEDIR>, L</LIBGUESTFS_TMPDIR>. =back |