[Libguestfs] [PATCH 0/3] Handle NTFS 3g case sensitive Windows paths in the daemon

In the current Perl library we have a function called resolve_windows_path which handles the useful [for Windows guests] case where we need to resolve the true, case-sensitive path behind a case-insensitive Windows path. For example, a Windows path like "C:\Windows\System32" can be presented to Linux by NTFS 3g in a variety of ways, eg: /WINDOWS/system32 /WINDOWS/SYSTEM32 depending entirely on the inconsequential details of how it was originally created. Windows doesn't care about case sensitivity, but NTFS 3g does. Since resolve_windows_path is a very useful function, the first patch moves it into the daemon. The new API is called "guestfs_case_sensitive_path". The second patch adds some useful functionality to guestfish, so you can use Windows-style paths, like this: touch win:C:\windows\foo (Note that all ordinary paths must begin with a '/' char, so this can't conflict with any existing, working scripts). The third patch deprecates resolve_windows_path in the Perl code and replaces it with calls to $g->case_sensitive_path. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top