similar to: [libnbd PATCH] nbdsh: Start adding unit tests

We decided to not request the "base:allocation" context by default (if a client wants to use block_status on a different context, then they'd have to get any default request out of the way); however, block status is useless without at least one meta context. This adds a convenience knob for requesting that, and has the nice benefit of working with the --connect command line option

When using nbdsh for scripting, it is convenient to let nbdsh fail with status 1 when encountering an API failure. However, doing so by letting the nbd.Error exception leak all the way causes ABRT (on Fedora 32 at least) to assume the program crashed from a programming error, and needlessly complicates clients to have to add try: blocks. Better is if nbdsh itself prints the same stack trace that

v1 was here: https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2022-October/030216.html Since then, I've incorporated changes based on Rich's feedback: swap order of patches 2 and 3 less change in patch 1 (including no unsafe eval(%s) for --uri) in patch 2, include -c in list of snippets to store, and use dict of lambdas to map back to the desired action Eric Blake (3): nbdsh:

Typing nbdsh --con (the minimum to get an unambiguous prefix for --connect, different from --command) is annoying compared to having a short option. Since it takes a URI as an argument, using -u/--uri is a nicer mnemonic. We still accept --connect for back-compat, and document it in the man page, but omit it from --help as the new spelling is nicer all around. --- Here's what things evolved

When using nbdsh for scripting, it is convenient to let nbdsh fail with status 1 when encountering an API failure. However, doing so by letting the nbd.Error exception leak all the way causes ABRT (at least on Fedora 32 with abrt-python3-handler installed) to assume the program crashed from a programming error, and needlessly complicates clients to have to add try: blocks. Better is if nbdsh

Typing nbdsh --con (the minimum to get an unambiguous prefix for --connect, different from --command) is annoying compared to having a short option. Since it takes a URI as an argument, using -u seems like a reasonable mnemonic. --- sh/nbdsh.pod | 6 ++++-- python/nbdsh.py | 2 +- sh/test-context.sh | 8 ++++---- sh/test-pattern.sh | 2 +- 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8

Test that we can script the read of a specific pattern from nbdkit. Also, test that we can concatenate global functions through consecutive -c. This test fails if commit d6cbd130 is reverted. --- sh/Makefile.am | 5 ++++- sh/test-dump.sh | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100755 sh/test-dump.sh diff --git

Similar to --base-allocation, this is a common enough configuration that cannot be performed with -c when using --uri, but which makes life easier in scripting. And like --base-allocation, I'm starting with only a long option spelling, rather than burning a short option letter. --- sh/nbdsh.pod | 21 +++++++++++++++++++-- python/nbdsh.py | 6 ++++++ sh/test-context.sh | 32

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 01:33:25PM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 12:34 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 04, 2022 at 04:18:31PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > > > Document all options in --help output. If -n is not in use, then > > > enhance the banner to print the current state of h, and further tailor

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 11:52:27AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 01:33:25PM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 12:34 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 04, 2022 at 04:18:31PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > > > > Document all options in --help output. If -n is not in

On Sunday, I did a "yum update" which installed kernel 2.6.32-573.3.1.el6.i686 on half a dozen virtual machines running CentOS 6.7. Since then, two of them have gone into "meltdown", and started spewing "ABRT Daemon" emails: one on Tuesday, and one tonight. The machines have a very light workload -- one runs "trac", and a handful of development systems,

Very much a work in progress as there are still many tests using qemu-io which are candidates for conversion. You'll notice at the end of test-full.sh that the new test has some duplicated code which looks as if it ought to be refactored into a Python function. When I tried to do that, I got loads of strange Python problems which may indicate bugs in nbdsh itself or problems with my

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 12:34 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 04, 2022 at 04:18:31PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > > Document all options in --help output. If -n is not in use, then > > enhance the banner to print the current state of h, and further tailor > > the advice given on useful next steps to take to mention opt_go when >

On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 04:41:20PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > I'm out of time this weekend, but while trying to write a test for an > nbdkit bug fix (a nasty assertion failure when the client disconnects > uncleanly without NBD_CMD_DISC, which is what nbdcopy does if it gets > an EIO read response from the server), I realized it is extremely hard > to trigger this using nbdsh,

On 9/15/19 9:55 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > The source for the easter egg example is not included, but it is: > > org 0x7c00 > ; clear screen > mov ah,0 > mov al,3 > int 0x10 > ; print string > mov ah,0x13 > mov bl,0xa > mov al,1 > mov cx,len > mov dh,0 >

On 6/28/19 1:27 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Previously errors caused a RuntimeException to be raised. This commit > defines a custom exception (nbd.Error) which has two parameters, the > required error string, and the optional errno (which may be 0 if > unavailable). > > For example: > > $ ./run nbdsh -c 'h.pread(0, 0)' > Traceback (most recent call last):

I'm out of time this weekend, but while trying to write a test for an nbdkit bug fix (a nasty assertion failure when the client disconnects uncleanly without NBD_CMD_DISC, which is what nbdcopy does if it gets an EIO read response from the server), I realized it is extremely hard to trigger this using nbdsh, but easy to do in C or the Go bindings. In the Go bindings, we intentionally coded

Hi, Is there a rule or guideline about what Python versions must be supported for scripts in the LLVM tree? I am working on some patches to some scripts in LLVM to use features in Python 2.7, so that these scripts can run under Python 2.7 and Python 3.x Is that OK? For example, here is a patch to use print as a function, so that the scripts can work in Python 2.7 and Python 3.x -- Craig

On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 09:23:46PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > + if (!filename == !directory) { A bit tricksy. In plugins/nbd/nbd.c I used: int c = !!sockname + !!hostname + !!uri + (command.size > 0) + (socket_fd >= 0) + !!raw_cid; /* Check the user passed exactly one connection parameter. */ if (c > 1) { nbdkit_error ("cannot mix Unix ‘socket’, TCP

I'm pleased to announce the releases of libnbd 1.2 and nbdkit 1.16. These are a high performance Network Block Device (NBD) client library and server. Key features of libnbd: * Synchronous API for ease of use. * Asynchronous API for writing non-blocking, multithreaded clients. You can mix both APIs freely. * High performance. * Minimal dependencies for the basic library. *