[Libguestfs] [PATCHx7] Misc patches

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 05:07:36PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Looks fine.  But why not do the same for tgz_in ?

tgz_in is a FileIn parameter, and those functions have to be handled
quite differently.  In particular you can't call reply_with{,p}error
for those functions -- you have to cancel the receive first.  This is
not really documented anywhere ...

http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#functions_that_have_filein_parameters

The upshot is that any functions which have any FileIn parameter must
not use Pathname/Device/Dev_or_path, but must do all the checking
explicitly.

Luckily there are only 3 or 4 such functions.

Rich.

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