guestfs_lstatlist, guestfs_lxattrlist: Reimplement to avoid protocol limits.

Note that the code to do this was already in virt-ls, so this is
change is mostly just moving the code into the core library.

1 files changed, 48 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/generator/generator_actions.ml b/generator/generator_actions.ml
index d614e75c..5e776519 100644
--- a/generator/generator_actions.ml
+++ b/generator/generator_actions.ml
@@ -2152,6 +2152,50 @@ C<path> does not exist, then a new file is created.
 
 See also C<guestfs_write>." };
 
+  { defaults with
+    name = "lstatlist";
+    style = RStructList ("statbufs", "stat"), [Pathname "path"; StringList "names"], [];
+    shortdesc = "lstat on multiple files";
+    longdesc = "\
+This call allows you to perform the C<guestfs_lstat> operation
+on multiple files, where all files are in the directory C<path>.
+C<names> is the list of files from this directory.
+
+On return you get a list of stat structs, with a one-to-one
+correspondence to the C<names> list.  If any name did not exist
+or could not be lstat'd, then the C<ino> field of that structure
+is set to C<-1>.
+
+This call is intended for programs that want to efficiently
+list a directory contents without making many round-trips.
+See also C<guestfs_lxattrlist> for a similarly efficient call
+for getting extended attributes." };
+
+  { defaults with
+    name = "lxattrlist";
+    style = RStructList ("xattrs", "xattr"), [Pathname "path"; StringList "names"], [];
+    optional = Some "linuxxattrs";
+    shortdesc = "lgetxattr on multiple files";
+    longdesc = "\
+This call allows you to get the extended attributes
+of multiple files, where all files are in the directory C<path>.
+C<names> is the list of files from this directory.
+
+On return you get a flat list of xattr structs which must be
+interpreted sequentially.  The first xattr struct always has a zero-length
+C<attrname>.  C<attrval> in this struct is zero-length
+to indicate there was an error doing C<lgetxattr> for this
+file, I<or> is a C string which is a decimal number
+(the number of following attributes for this file, which could
+be C<\"0\">).  Then after the first xattr struct are the
+zero or more attributes for the first named file.
+This repeats for the second and subsequent files.
+
+This call is intended for programs that want to efficiently
+list a directory contents without making many round-trips.
+See also C<guestfs_lstatlist> for a similarly efficient call
+for getting standard stats." };
+
 ]
 
 (* daemon_functions are any functions which cause some action
@@ -6281,9 +6325,10 @@ names, you will need to locate and parse the password file
 yourself (Augeas support makes this relatively easy)." };
 
   { defaults with
-    name = "lstatlist";
+    name = "internal_lstatlist";
     style = RStructList ("statbufs", "stat"), [Pathname "path"; StringList "names"], [];
     proc_nr = Some 204;
+    in_docs = false; in_fish = false;
     shortdesc = "lstat on multiple files";
     longdesc = "\
 This call allows you to perform the C<guestfs_lstat> operation
@@ -6304,9 +6349,10 @@ this call to fail.  The caller must split up such requests
 into smaller groups of names." };
 
   { defaults with
-    name = "lxattrlist";
+    name = "internal_lxattrlist";
     style = RStructList ("xattrs", "xattr"), [Pathname "path"; StringList "names"], [];
     proc_nr = Some 205;
+    in_docs = false; in_fish = false;
     optional = Some "linuxxattrs";
     shortdesc = "lgetxattr on multiple files";
     longdesc = "\