[Libguestfs] [PATCH] fish: Add --rw option (does nothing yet).

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 12:39:48PM +0000, Matthew Booth wrote:
> On 11/08/2010 12:02 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >>From 2c4a7ef92a4583a1217213573ad406eb5d745990 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >From: Richard W.M. Jones<rjones at redhat.com>
> >Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 18:36:02 +0000
> >Subject: [PATCH] fish: Add --rw option (does nothing yet).
> >
> >This adds the guestfish --rw option, intended in future
> >to be required for writing to disk images.
> >
> >At the moment this does not change the default and so does
> >nothing.  This patch is intended for backporting to the
> >stable branches so that we can start to introduce scripts
> >which use 'guestfish --rw'.
> >---
> >  fish/fish.c         |    7 ++++++-
> >  fish/guestfish.pod  |   46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> >  fish/options.h      |    7 +++++++
> >  fuse/guestmount.c   |    7 ++++++-
> >  fuse/guestmount.pod |    7 +++++++
> >  5 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> 
> >--- a/fish/options.h
> >+++ b/fish/options.h
> >@@ -185,6 +185,13 @@ extern int add_libvirt_drives (const char *guest);
> >      exit (EXIT_SUCCESS);                                                \
> >    }
> >
> >+#define OPTION_w                                                        \
> >+  if (read_only) {                                                      \
> >+    fprintf (stderr, _("%s: cannot mix --ro and --rw options\n"),       \
> >+             program_name);                                             \
> >+    exit (EXIT_FAILURE);                                                \
> >+  }
> >+
> 
> This will display an error if the user does:
> 
> guestfish --ro --rw
> 
> but not:
> 
> guestfish --rw --ro

Yeah, I knew that when I was writing it ...  The alternative is a bit
more invasive unfortunately.  Eventually we need to refactor this
argument sharing code since it's a bit of a macro-hack at the moment.

Rich.

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