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This change refactors guestfs___has_windows_systemroot to guestfs___get_windows_systemroot. The new function returns a dynamically allocated char * which must be freed. The new function is no less efficient than before, as it returns the result of guestfs___case_sensitive_path_silently, which is required anyway. The new code is slightly more efficient...

This patch series changes a small part of the library to use __attribute__((cleanup(...))) to automatically free memory when pointers go out of the current scope. In general terms this seems to be a small win although you do have to use it carefully. For functions where you can completely get rid of the "exit code paths", it can simplify things. For a good example, see the

This adds most of the hivex APIs directly to the libguestfs API, so that you can read and write Windows Registry hive files from libguestfs without needing to download and upload hive files from the guest. This is analogous to how Augeas APIs are exposed already (guestfs_aug_*) Also, inspection is now done using the new APIs, which fixes the following bug: