New API calls: lstatlist, lxattrlist, readlinklist.

These three functions are very specifically designed for FUSE
support, so we can list directories efficiently.  Instead of
making lots of lstat, lgetxattr and readlink calls, we can make just
three calls per directory to grab all the attributes (which we
then cache briefly).

2 files changed, 74 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/MAX_PROC_NR b/src/MAX_PROC_NR
index bb2ee191..b35cfafd 100644
--- a/src/MAX_PROC_NR
+++ b/src/MAX_PROC_NR
@@ -1 +1 @@
-203
+206
diff --git a/src/generator.ml b/src/generator.ml
index b8add4c0..001d0217 100755
--- a/src/generator.ml
+++ b/src/generator.ml
@@ -3783,6 +3783,79 @@ Only numeric uid and gid are supported.  If you want to use
 names, you will need to locate and parse the password file
 yourself (Augeas support makes this relatively easy).");
 
+  ("lstatlist", (RStructList ("statbufs", "stat"), [Pathname "path"; StringList "names"]), 204, [],
+   [], (* XXX *)
+   "lstat on multiple files",
+   "\
+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.  Very long directory listings
+might cause the protocol message size to be exceeded, causing
+this call to fail.  The caller must split up such requests
+into smaller groups of names.");
+
+  ("lxattrlist", (RStructList ("xattrs", "xattr"), [Pathname "path"; StringList "names"]), 205, [],
+   [], (* XXX *)
+   "lgetxattr on multiple files",
+   "\
+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.  Very long directory listings
+might cause the protocol message size to be exceeded, causing
+this call to fail.  The caller must split up such requests
+into smaller groups of names.");
+
+  ("readlinklist", (RStringList "links", [Pathname "path"; StringList "names"]), 206, [],
+   [], (* XXX *)
+   "readlink on multiple files",
+   "\
+This call allows you to do a C<readlink> 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 strings, with a one-to-one
+correspondence to the C<names> list.  Each string is the
+value of the symbol link.
+
+If the C<readlink(2)> operation fails on any name, then
+the corresponding result string is the empty string C<\"\">.
+However the whole operation is completed even if there
+were C<readlink(2)> errors, and so you can call this
+function with names where you don't know if they are
+symbolic links already (albeit slightly less efficient).
+
+This call is intended for programs that want to efficiently
+list a directory contents without making many round-trips.
+Very long directory listings might cause the protocol
+message size to be exceeded, causing
+this call to fail.  The caller must split up such requests
+into smaller groups of names.");
+
 ]
 
 let all_functions = non_daemon_functions @ daemon_functions