[Libguestfs] [PATCH] Non-daemon actions indirect through generated code

Matthew Booth mbooth at redhat.com
Thu Sep 10 13:52:24 UTC 2009


On 09/09/09 12:51, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Matt asked me this morning if we could generate guestfish scripts
> automatically from running programs like virt-v2v.  Good idea.
>
> This patch however doesn't do this, but it lays the groundwork for it:
> In order for us to generate code for any functions which don't go
> through the daemon, we need to add an indirection to those calls via
> some generated code.  This will allow us to add guestfish tracing at
> some point in the future.
>
> If you want to debug calls to libguestfs code, then the easiest thing
> to do is to use ltrace(1).  Sample ltrace output is attached.

ACK (as discussed on IRC, conditional on trace too).

Matt
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