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On 07/03/16 13:29, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 05:42:24PM +0200, Matteo Cafasso wrote: >> As discussed in the topic: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2016-March/msg00018.html >> >> I'd like to add to libguestfs the disk forensics capabilities offered by The Sleuth Kit. >> http://www.sleuthkit.org/ >> >> The two APIs

...files therefore we need to expect a large output. Your understanding is correct. But the fls0 API still isn't safe because (I assume) it cannot handle filenames containing '\n'. There's another API which handles arbitrary length RStructList returns, which is: guestfs_lxattrlist / guestfs_internal_lxattrlist (see src/file.c:guestfs_impl_lxattrlist and daemon/xattr.c). > What is missing is the higher level implementation which would > pretty much look like the libguestfs_ls API. I need to better > understand how to implement it and suggestions are more than > appreciated. I tried to trace b...

The existing mechanism was clunky, slow and used ~ 10 MB of local disk. Rich.