12:23 p.m.
The current guestfs_find API call contains an undocumented limit: It
needs to marshall the whole list of filenames into a single protocol
message.
Unfortunately just about any Linux guest breaks this limit if you try
'guestfs_find ("/")' so this isn't much use.
These patches add a new API call (find0) which breaks this limit by
using a FileOut parameter. It's slightly harder to use than
guestfs_find, but better suited to program cases (guestfs_find
remains, of course).
We also update virt-ls to use this in the 'virt-ls -R' case.
Rich.
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12:23 p.m.
New subject: [PATCH 1/3] guestfs_find: Document protocol limits for this API call.
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12:24 p.m.
New subject: [PATCH 2/3] New API: find0 (unlimited version of find)
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1:17 p.m.
New subject: [PATCH 2/3] New API: find0 (unlimited version of find)
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 06:24:02PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
+/* The code below assumes each path returned can fit into a
protocol
+ * chunk. If this turns out not to be true at some point in the
+ * future then we'll need to modify the code a bit to handle it, or
+ * make the chunk size a bit bigger.
+ */
Actually the comment is wrong: we CAN'T change the chunk size because
it's baked into the protocol which we can't change. Instead we'd have
to change the code to split the path over two or more chunks.
+ sysrootdir = sysroot_path (dir);
Grrrr ... the code misses a free (sysrootdir) along the non-error
path.
Garbage collection FTW.
Rest looks OK, but when reviewing please imagine that the above two
bugs are fixed.
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4:34 a.m.
New subject: [PATCH 2/3 version 2] New API: find0 (unlimited version of find)
Updated patch with the memory leak and comment fixed.
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New subject: [PATCH 3/3] virt-ls: Modify to use find0 instead of find.
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12:24 p.m.
New subject: [PATCH 0/3] Add guestfs_find0 API call which doesn't have limits
Missed out the diffstat:
daemon/find.c | 99 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
regressions/Makefile.am | 1 +
regressions/test-find0.sh | 39 ++++++++++++++++++
src/MAX_PROC_NR | 2 +-
src/generator.ml | 39 +++++++++++++++++-
tools/virt-ls | 24 +++++-----
6 files changed, 189 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
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