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authorRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2010-11-03 12:53:00 +0000
committerRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2010-11-03 17:44:30 +0000
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daemon: Send back the errno as a string.
This changes the protocol again so that if the errno is available, it is converted to a string (like "EIO") and sent back over the protocol to the library. In this commit the library just discards the string.
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diff --git a/src/guestfs.pod b/src/guestfs.pod
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@@ -781,6 +781,9 @@ fuse/guestmount.c.
In libguestfs 1.5.4, the protocol was changed so that the
Linux errno is sent back from the daemon.
+In libguestfs 1.7.1, the protocol was changed again to send the
+errno back as a string (for portability between differing Un*xes).
+
=item Ambiguity between devices and paths
There is a subtle ambiguity in the API between a device name