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author | Richard Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2009-05-08 14:28:03 +0100 |
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committer | Richard Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2009-05-08 14:28:03 +0100 |
commit | 0faa5dde7b992ba11bb88f77b3424676c7c492e4 (patch) | |
tree | 14948be793fca09223d7ca3022b9ac7e1fbebd81 /guestfs-actions.pod | |
parent | fa7c8bb79b45aecdf65ed93635a42f3fdf301134 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/guestfs-actions.pod b/guestfs-actions.pod index 23e05801..51b80a15 100644 --- a/guestfs-actions.pod +++ b/guestfs-actions.pod @@ -770,6 +770,21 @@ C<device>, with the root directory being C<root>. This function returns 0 on success or -1 on error. +=head2 guestfs_hexdump + + char *guestfs_hexdump (guestfs_h *handle, + const char *path); + +This runs C<hexdump -C> on the given C<path>. The result is +the human-readable, canonical hex dump of the file. + +This function returns a string, or NULL on error. +I<The caller must free the returned string after use>. + +Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit +of somewhere between 2MB and 4MB. To transfer large files you should use +FTP. + =head2 guestfs_is_busy int guestfs_is_busy (guestfs_h *handle); @@ -1411,6 +1426,46 @@ This function returns a C<struct guestfs_statvfs *> or NULL if there was an error. I<The caller must call C<free> after use>. +=head2 guestfs_strings + + char **guestfs_strings (guestfs_h *handle, + const char *path); + +This runs the L<strings(1)> command on a file and returns +the list of printable strings found. + +This function returns a NULL-terminated array of strings +(like L<environ(3)>), or NULL if there was an error. +I<The caller must free the strings and the array after use>. + +Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit +of somewhere between 2MB and 4MB. To transfer large files you should use +FTP. + +=head2 guestfs_strings_e + + char **guestfs_strings_e (guestfs_h *handle, + const char *encoding, + const char *path); + +This is like the C<guestfs_strings> command, but allows you to +specify the encoding. + +See the L<strings(1)> manpage for the full list of encodings. + +Commonly useful encodings are C<l> (lower case L) which will +show strings inside Windows/x86 files. + +The returned strings are transcoded to UTF-8. + +This function returns a NULL-terminated array of strings +(like L<environ(3)>), or NULL if there was an error. +I<The caller must free the strings and the array after use>. + +Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit +of somewhere between 2MB and 4MB. To transfer large files you should use +FTP. + =head2 guestfs_sync int guestfs_sync (guestfs_h *handle); @@ -1619,6 +1674,11 @@ 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). +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>. + This function returns 0 on success or -1 on error. Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit |